20 MEMBERS OF OUR HUNT CLUB 



through, and being beautiful drawers, spreading wide 

 over every foot of covert, the foxes were obHged to fiy, 

 and the thundering crash with which they came down 

 these hill-side woods was quite enough to scare their game 

 away. 



Jim Hills, the celebrated huntsman of the Heythrop 

 pack, who at the time I hunted this country was first 

 whipper-in to the late Lord Ducie, then Master of the 

 V. W. H. Hounds, told me, only two years ago, that he 

 had never forgotten the style in which my hounds used 

 to draw covert ; and the late Duke of Beaufort, who at 

 one period frequently honoured our fixtures with his 

 presence, paid us the highest compliment by saying to 

 me one day : " Whenever I want to have a good day's 

 sport, I come out with your hounds." Be it remembered 

 he was himself Master of one of the finest packs of fox- 

 hounds in the world, and hunting the country adjoining 

 mine ; and he told me that one day, when riding into 

 Bath (from illness, I was not out), he watched from 

 Lansdown my hounds find their fox in Beechwood, race 

 him over the Vale by themselves, and kill him in the 

 open, before he could reach Swainswick coverts, without 

 a horseman being within a mile of them. 



As a memento of those times, I subjoin a list of the 

 members of our Hunt Club. 



The Earl of Kerry, Bowood Park. 

 Sir Lewen Gl3mn, Bart., Bath. 

 T. S. Estcourt, M.P., New Park. 

 Paul Methuen, Corsham House. 

 Walter Long, M.P., Rood Ashton. 

 Joseph Neild, M.P., Grittleton. 

 John Neild, M.P., Grittleton, 



