116 OBSERVATIONS ON FOX-HUNTING 



— Considering the great number of sportsmen in 

 the field that day, it may be remarked as extra- 

 ordinary, that only the four following rode through, 

 and were at the end of the hunt : Mr. M. H. 

 Draught ; Mr. Richard Hammersley, riding Corio- 

 lanus ; Mr. J. Doolan, on Paddy from Cork ; Mr. 

 P. Chadwick, on his famous chestnut mare ; and 

 Tony, though last, not least, riding Kate, the 

 best mare in Ireland." 



It gave me great pleasure to find from this 

 animated description, that they keep up the spirit 

 of the chase with unabated ardour, and fox- 

 hunting still continues the most fashionable amuse- 

 ment in the sister country. In Scotland several 

 new packs have been recently estabhshed. Wales, 

 too, can boast many very keen lovers of the 

 Sport ; though there, I am told, the management 

 of a pack of fox-hounds is conducted in rather 

 a different manner to what it is with us. The 

 neighbourhood of Usk, in Monmouthshire, I be- 

 lieve, has claimed, almost from time immemorial, 

 a very excellent pack; and the attention paid 

 to the breeding, and the judgment shown in the 

 field, have reflected equal honour on the posses- 

 sors. The persevering style in which this inde- 

 fatigable pack stick to their fox, through those 

 truly " aivjul woods,'" denominated " Wert-Wood," 

 (in comparison of which, a friend of mine fancied 



