22 Tally ho. 



certain that you have got a horse who can go the pace, 

 at any rate. 



Returning, however, to the Park, another fox was 

 immediately found, which ran through the covers and 

 broke away towards Greywell— or ^^ Gruel/' as the 

 natives are wont to call it — leaving old Basing on the 

 left, and pointing towards Odiham, thence through 

 the covers, with now and then a burst across the open, 

 running for somewhere about an hour and a half, 

 until it went to ground in the vicinity of the old 

 Basingstoke Canal. The line of country crossed was 

 not one to be selected for sport, the covers being 

 numerous and large, the land in places terribly beavy. 

 Yet any one fond of seeing hounds hunt would have 

 no doubt of their ability to pull down a fox when- 

 ever lie tries to live before them in the big fields 

 lying in the direction of Winchester and the country 

 around. 



Again the hounds were trotted off — this time to 

 draw some osier beds. Not finding there, an adjacent 

 cover was tried, with a similar result ; but, on leaving, 

 the hounds suddenly came across the scent of a fox 

 which had stolen away, and, settling down with a 

 will, ran at a merry pace for some fifteen or twenty 

 minutes. But the scent being cold and the fox some 

 way ahead, the hounds came to a check. Then, re- 

 covering, they turned back towards the Greywell 

 Woods, after a short but pretty burst over a capital 

 country. 



Once again I felt that none but an old sportsman 

 can understand the feeling of delight experienced 

 when the cry is heard of " Gone away, lads j gone 

 away ! ^' and he finds himself sailing along at a 



