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had killed seven brace of cubs, and that Grass- 

 tead Wood, where we were to throw off, was a 

 certain find. 



" There was one of the field to whom I have 

 not yet referred, but who deserves the most 

 favourable mention. I allude to the Honour- 

 able Augustus Berkeley. In earlier The Hon 

 days he was a first-rate performer in Augustus 

 Leicestershire, and in that county, as 

 well as the Cheltenham and Vale of Berkeley, 

 where he hunted with his noble brother, the 

 Earl Fitzharclinge, there were few, if any, better 

 men. Indeed, we question whether at any 

 time the ' Brothers Berkeley,' Frederick and 

 Augustus, could be equalled. The captain 

 has, however, confided himself to the pro- 

 vinces, and now devotes his hunting time 

 between Colonel Wyndham's, Mr. Richard- 

 son's, the Hambledon r and Sir Horace Sey- 

 mour's harriers. Upon the day I allude to, 

 Captain Berkeley was mounted on a remark- 

 ably clever Irish horse called 'The Baby.' If 

 he was infantine in name, he was a i giant' in 

 the field, for a more perfect hunter I never 

 saw; a first-rate fencer r and fast enough for 

 any hounds. No sooner did we find, than the 

 captain exclaimed, c Follow me !' but to say 

 and to do are widely different ; however, at a 



