PREFACE. 



In the following pages the author has attempted a double 

 task : he has gathered from the experience of manj years 

 recollections of runs with packs of hounds whose names are 

 familiar to all, and he has complied with the wishes of friends 

 in the North of England and elsewhere in giving particulars of 

 certain packs which have hitherto been neglected by fox-hunting 

 historians. He has not aimed in all these cases at giving the 

 details which should be presented in every complete history 

 of a hunt, but has relied rather on his own personal knowledge 

 of countries with which he can claim to be fairly well 

 acquainted . 



Some of the runs belong to recent days, others to hunting 

 history. Three great runs, which may rightly be called 

 historical, took place more than fifty years ago, and the author's 

 descriptions of them have since been confirmed and corroborated 

 in the Field by others who had been present. 



East Molesey, 

 Sejptember, 1922. 



