110 Memoir of Tom Smith, 



Wiltsliire covers will be regularly hunted, and 

 tlie greatest part of them not hunted at all, 

 should Mr. "WjTidliam, or any other gentleman 

 in that neighbourhood, at any time, think 

 proper to establish another pack (provided it 

 be mth the consent and approbation of the 

 proprietors before mentioned), Mr. Farquharson 



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must resign the country. 



^' Should you ask on icJiat these rights are 

 founded, I shall answer you in two words — 07i 

 common sense, 



" Stapleton, Nov. 2G, 180G." 



Another visit paid was to Mr. Evelyn 

 Denison, at Ossington, who procured Mr. 

 Smith some sport with Lord Henry Bentinck's 

 hounds. The meet was in Lincolnshire, 

 twenty-eight miles from Ossington. One hack 

 and a hunter were sent on over night half- 

 way, and he rode another hack the next morn- 

 ing to the same place; the hunter having 

 been already sent on to the meet. He fol- 

 lowed on the fresh hack, the other being left 



