350 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1845 to 



Good men Amongst other good fox proser- 



in the V me o o I 



Hunt. vers and staunch sportsmen are the 



Messrs. A. Twitchin, sen. and jun., of North 

 Oakley ; the Messrs. Beckingham of Ashe ; 

 John Bailey of Bear Mill, Whitchurch ; the 

 Messrs. Neate of Overton ; Stephen Burdass 

 of Freefolk ; the Messrs. Pitter of Hunton, J. 

 Hooper of Litchfield, G. Webb of Hanning- 

 ton, and probably many others; but I must 

 not omit Mr. Francis Budd of Cliddesden, 

 who keeps a pack of harriers, and hunts the 

 country between Basingstoke and Kempshot, 

 and is a good sportsman with his own pack, 

 and a fox preserver also. 



Mr. Whieldon, during his manage- 



Run through & ° 



wherweii meiit, has had many good runs ; but 

 Nov, 29, perhaps the best and most remark- 

 able was on the 29th of November, 

 1862. They met at Whitchurch Lodge Gate, 

 and found in Lord Portsmouth's osier-beds at 

 Tufton, and raced the fox over the meadows, 

 through Hurstbourne Park, into Wherwell 

 Wood, when only five men out of a large 

 field, including Mr. Whieldon and his two 

 whips, were anywhere near them when he 

 entered this interminable forest of four thou- 

 sand acres. They forced him through with- 



