1862.] OF HAMPSHIRE. 347 



During the first season, Alfred Lett's 

 Munns (since dead) was huntsman, servants. 

 and Robert Price (who had his leg broken by 

 a young horse that a farmeipvas riding) was 

 whipper-in. Will Cox came in 1860, Alfred 

 Munns becoming first whip, the other whippers 

 in since have been Tom Champion and Charles 

 Cox. 



Mr. Arthur Whieldon commenced M ^Arthur 

 his very successful career as a master WMeidon 



•J master ot 



of hounds by doing a bold thing, the vine. 

 having purchased a pack of foxhounds, and 

 engaged Humphry Pearce as huntsman, be- 

 fore he had an inch of country, or a kennel 

 to put them in. At this time nothing was 

 decided as to the management of the Vine 

 country. No public meeting had as yet been 

 called, and there were no kennels, the old 

 ones having been pulled down when Lord 

 Portsmouth took the country and removed the 

 hounds to Hurstbourne. It so happened 

 that the West Kent hounds were the only 

 established pack to be had this year ; and Mr. 

 Whieldon knowing that hounds were the chief 

 ingredient in sport, went in boldly and bought 

 them, and for a time was in the awkward posi- 

 tion of a master of foxhounds without a 

 country, until his oifer to take the Vine was 



