300 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1845 to 



hand raised as supplicating patience and silence, 

 sat motionless, till one old trusted hound took 

 up the cry. Her tongue had been scarcely 

 thrown, when with a joyous cheer he screamed, 

 ' That's fox, that's fox ! forward ! away.' No 

 fox had been visible over a wide extent of 

 open, but nevertheless a wary old-'un had 

 stolen off and was killed on that day, after a 

 chase which adorned nearly a column of next 

 Sunday s Bell? 



Robert Summers was assisted while with 



John hW the H. H. by Charles Cross and 

 man - Robert Chilcls in his first season, and 



by John Hickman and Robert Childs in the 

 second. - Robert Childs, who was a native of 

 Bishop's Sutton, afterwards hunted t\\Q East 

 Sussex, under Mr. H. M. Curteis. 



Jack Hickman was born at Gloucester ; he 

 was first with Lord Fitzhardinge, under Harry 

 Ayris, for two seasons. He was altogether 

 four seasons with the H. H., under Summers 

 and Roberts; he next went to the Oakley, and 

 Mr. Tailby in 1861. Hickman then became an 

 inmate of the Brompton Hospital owing to a 

 very severe illness, caused by his horse falling 

 on him in a brook, and while there he received 

 much kindness from his old H. H. friends, 

 who, headed by his old master, Mr. Robert 

 Pearse, got up a subscription for him. 



