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Mr. William Standisli of South 1362. 

 Stoneham House, on the resignation dish master 

 of Mr. Tregonwell, took the Hursley Hursley. 

 hounds, and has conducted that establishment 

 with unprecedented liberality. Mr. Standisli 

 is a first-rate rider, and has some excellent 

 horses, and is in every respect deserving of a 

 better country than the Hursley, for, although 

 he meets with every encouragement from Lord 

 Palmerston, Sir William Heathcote, and Mr. 

 Chamberlayne, who are the principal land- 

 holders, yet, I am bound to say, there have 

 been black sheep in his country, and that 

 foxes have been found trapped on more than 

 one occasion ; and as I make a point of men- 

 tioning all the good men and true that I can 

 think of, I should be doing an injustice were 

 I to pass over without a good word Good men 

 Mr. W. Allee of Rookley (a staunch Hursley 

 preserver and excellent sportsman), coantr y- 

 the Messrs. Bailey, T. Edwards of Compton, 

 J. Fitt of Westley, H. Barton and Westbrook 

 of Hursley, George Rider of Braishfielcl, 

 George Pern and George Smith of Crawley, 

 Mr. H. Watkins of Lainston, and Mr. Russell 

 the veterinarian of Stockbridge ; the two last, I 

 believe, annually walk a puppy for the master. 



Summers now became kennel huntsman, as 



