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by Mercer. During that time I saw them 

 frequently pass the school on their way to 

 Doles Wood and other places. Will Harrison 

 was the name of the huntsman, who lived 

 afterwards with Mr. Russell at Grey well, near 

 Odiham ; whether George Sharp and John 

 Richmond were at that time his assistants, I 

 cannot say. Lord Stawell, I believe, lived at 

 Marelands, near Farnham, and hunted about 

 that country. I presume there were not many 

 foxes at that time ; in consequence, his pack 

 was shifted about a good deal. For instance, 

 he had a kennel at the public-house, a mile out 

 of Basingstoke, on the Preston Candover-road : 

 his own quarters very frequently at Hackwood, 

 in the late Duke of Bolton's time, where I 

 several times met him, the duchess having 

 taken some notice of me as a little boy. On 

 one occasion, early in September, we found a 

 vixen and six cubs in Springwood. The vixen 

 got away, and in about two hours we killed 

 the whole of the litter. About two years after, 

 Mr. Barber of Fremington, near Barnstaple, 

 bought up one of the best packs of the day, 

 and hunted a great part of Mr. Smith's* 

 country — the first year he came to the Star 



* i.e. What was, many years afterwards, in 1828, Mr. Assheton 

 Smith's, or the Ted-worth. 



