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certainly the most popular writer, and perhaps, 

 taking him for all in all, he was one of the 

 most pleasing writers on these subjects who 

 has ever lived. His knowledge of horses, 

 hounds, and their masters, was very extensive, 

 and possessing a very retentive memory, he 

 was enabled to store up anecdotes of the best 

 sportsmen in England. The latter part of his 

 life was passed at Boulogne, where he died 

 May 19, 1843. 



This not being one of the usual T hePontiff 



o day at 



days of hunting with the H. H., it Harmsworth 



Dec. 22nd 



was suggested by some friends of Mr. 1822. 

 Villebois that a by-day would be acceptable, 

 for the purpose of seeing the whole progeny 

 (amounting in all to sixteen couple and a half) 

 of the celebrated hound Pontiff, together with 

 their dams, four in number. They met at the 

 kennels, and, notwithstanding that the rain fell 

 in torrents, several sportsmen assembled at 

 Harmsworth. Up to this time the H. H. had 

 killed eighteen brace of foxes. 



On Wednesday, December 18, Sir sir John 

 John Cope's hounds had a capital Decfisth. 

 run. They met at Bramshill, found at Fleet, 

 and ran to ground in a main earth on Jay's 

 Farm, near Pangbourne, a distance of full 

 twenty miles from where he was found. Bein 





