1 2 Tallyho, 



Well do we remember the day when the meet was 

 Bui wick — the time the month of March, a season when 

 foxes travel long distances. No sooner were the 

 hounds thrown on than a noble old dog-fox was 

 viewed; disdaining the covers, he took to the ride, 

 and was run in full view until the open was reached, 

 when for an hour and a quarter he went across country 

 at racing pace without a check, and died before the 

 hounds in the centre of Rockingham Park. Experi- 

 ence recalls no better run, and when sailing along by 

 the side of Sebright the conclusion was inevitable that 

 nothing could beat fox-hunting. Again we may look 

 but fruitlessly for Lord Cardigan and Hubert de 

 Burgh, who would occasionally come over from Deane 

 to have a turn with the Fitzwilliam -, for Mr. Tryon, of 

 Bulwick Park ; Lord Sandwich, Mr. Wells, of Stilton ; 

 Parsons Croft, of Shelton ; and Shafto, of Buckhurst ; 

 Tom George, of Bythorn, a welter weight ; Tom Day, 

 of Kimbolton, whose weather-beaten face gained him 

 the sobriquet of '' purple day ^' ; Banks Tomline ; 

 Yipan, another welter; Charlie Lindow, better known 

 as "The Captain"; Jack Stevens, on Cock-of-the- 

 Heath ; Alick Goodman, a bruiser, and well known to 

 fame as a hard one to beat ; the Sartoris Brothers ; or 

 '' Miss Reynolds," who now and then mowed down the 

 whole field, including even George Carter, who used 

 to indulge in forcible notes of admiration when she 

 squandered the lot, as she flew a bullfinch. 



But the past must take care of itself; our business 

 to-day is hunting. The covers at Lilford Hall, not 

 having been yet shot through, were not drawn, and 

 the hounds were trotted on to the Fox Covers, where 

 we soon found, but little good was done with the fox, 



