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hounds next Saturday from Broadhalfpenny 

 Do\Yn ?" 



Staveley readily entered into my plan. Our 

 arrangements were soon made, and at tlie 

 appointed day we found ourselves punctually 

 at the meet. A glorious sun — quite a ^^ soleil 

 d'Austerlitz" — shone brilliantly on the nume- 

 rous field then assembled at Eroadhalfpenny 

 Down. Men came from far and near, to wit- 

 ness the last '^ finish" of their yeteran sports- 

 man chief — to hear the last '' whoop" of the 

 man Avho had so often afibrded them recrea- 

 tion, health, and sport — who had so often been 

 the means of baulking their doctors of the 

 accustomed fee ! "We mustered about a hun- 

 dred and fifty strong, in scarlet and black and 

 green. All the ^'beauty and fashion" of 

 Hambledon — no contemptible disj^lay of both 

 — were on the ground; and several ladies, 

 appropriately equij)ped for the chase — amongst 

 whom shone the fair '^ Huntress of South 

 Hants" — came likewise to j)articij)ate in 



