22 Memoir of Tom Smith. 



after riding several miles, the men came up, 

 they found him in the midst of the pack, with 

 the fox in his hands. 



Shortly after this he accepted an invitation 

 into Sussex, to witness the last day that the 

 Duke of Eichmond's hounds hunted fox, be- 

 fore they Avent to Swinley to hunt stag, having 

 been made a present of to the Prince Eegent. 

 On this day they had a capital run; Mr. Smith 

 was luckily the first in at the death, and took 

 the brush. 



His next sport was in Devonshii-e, where 

 his brother Samuel for ten years held the 

 perpetual cui-acy of Tiverton. This occasioned 

 liim to pay several visits to that country, 

 where he was introduced to Mr. Newton Fel- 

 lowes, who kept a pack of large foxliounds at 

 Eggesford, and whose cheery voice, ^' Cover- 

 hoick," when he thi-ew them into cover, can 

 never be forgotten. He also became a member 

 of the cricket-club at Barnstaple ; and as he 

 had had some previous experience in Hanip- 



