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more of grass and less of flints than those 

 hunted by Mr. Villebois, or the late Mr. Chute, 

 and has altogether a more fox-hunting appear- 

 ance. That part of it in the neighbourhood of 

 Waltham Chase, Durley, Rowhay, Twyford 

 Park, &c, is capable of showing very good 

 sport indeed. 



" I hunted only four days with the Ham- 

 bledon hounds, but witnessed on one of them 

 the best Hampshire fox I have ever yet seen, 

 having afforded us a run, straight over the 

 country, of fourteen miles without a cast, and 

 without his once putting his head into a covert. 

 Being one of Mr. Villebois' foxes, he was 

 marked to ground in Micheldever Wood, full 

 seventeen miles from the place where he was 

 found. # 



" A short time after I left them, these hounds 

 had another capital run, which finding its way 

 into the papers, was copied from thence into 

 the last number of the Sporting Magazine, and 

 since then they have had another still more 

 deserving of notice. 



"Having been told by Mr. Villebois that it 



* The hounds met this day at Mr. Nunez's, at Warnford Park, and 

 found an old fox at Henwood ; went away to Hinton House, crossing 

 the river near Alresford, to the Grange, and then ran to ground in 

 Micheldever Wood. Mr. Smith says that the old earthstopper coming 

 up, expressed his regret that he had not been informed that the hounds 

 were to hunt that day, he believing they were the H. H. — Author. 



