114 SPORTING REMINISCENCES. [1800 to 



the Forest, speaking of him as a huntsman, 

 said : " Were I a fox, I would sooner have a 

 pack of hounds behind me than Tom Smith, 

 with a stick in his hand."* 



Old Will James was Mr. Smith's 

 kennel huntsman, and proved him- 

 self a good manager of hounds. John Sharp, 

 above mentioned, who went with him to the 

 Craven, was his whip ; he afterwards went to 

 Mr. Wyndham, in the New Forest, and then 

 to Lord Egmont. 



Good runs in the month of November, from 

 Marwell Hall on the 19 th, from Preshaw 

 House on the 24th, and from West End on 

 the 26th, will be found in the Sporting Maga- 

 zine, p. 190. 



In the fourteenth volume of the 



Mr. Chute's . . 



and sir Joim sporting Magazine, JN lmrod says : 

 " By way of a finish to the season, I 

 treated myself to a day or two with Mr. 

 Chute's, Sir John Cope's, and Mr. Warde's 

 hounds. The fixture with Mr. Chute on the 

 31st of March was at West Sherborne Church, 



* Scrutator, speaking of the two Torn Smiths, says: "Tom Smith, 

 of Leicestershire renown, could kill his fox handsomely with a good 

 pack of hounds. The other Tom Smith, of Hambledon and Craven 

 renown, could kill his fox without a good pack. I was going to say 

 without any hounds at all ; that is, I have seen him, when the scent 

 failed, doing the work hounds ought to have done, through his extra- 

 ordinary knowledge of the running and wily movements of the animal 

 he was pursuing." — Recollections of a Fox-hunter, p. 73. 



