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from Portsmouth. All were delighted at the 

 finish, and too much praise could not be given 

 to Will Cox for the quiet way he handled his 

 hounds. ' ' — Bell's Life. 



Being anxious to obtain some 

 Mr. Neviii's knowledge of these singularly beauti- 

 Huberf' ftu 1 hounds, I wrote to Mr. Nevill, and 

 bloodhounds requested him, as a favour, to give 



and red-deer A ' © 



presented to me some account of them. He kindly 



him by the . J 



Duke of send me a long letter, which I copy 



Beaufort. 7 



verbatim : 

 " I first obtained the breed from the New 

 Forest, before it was disafforested; they are 

 the breed of ancient kings, and were used for 

 chasing the majestic stag over the wild waste, 

 where the musical St. Hubert hound thoroughly 

 carried out his nature. I have possessed the 

 breed for twenty years, and I now have twenty 

 couple. George Gaiger, the huntsman, has 

 been with the pack from childhood, and also 

 Thomas Lock, the whip; therefore they are 

 well versed in the management of the blood- 

 hound, which requires very peculiar tact. I 

 now relate to you several chases of the Monarch 

 stag. I turned him out in the year 1855, close 

 to the Worthy kennel, and he gave me a nice 

 gallop. When the chase was over, he followed 

 me home, bein£ on horseback, which he fre- 



