98 Tally ho, 



of our largest foxhounds have been selected. The 

 following are the names of the distinguished visitors 

 who arrived in the course of the evening : His 

 Excellency Count Larisch_, Count Clam-Gallas^ the 

 Due de Croy, General Calderon, and Count Outremont. 

 In addition to whom I found, located in the George : 

 Captain Bridson, Mr. Scot Murray, Mr. Gebhart, 

 Mr. C. Addison Birley, Mr. Heysham, and Mr. 

 Sheil. 



The morning broke clear and crispy, the searching 

 wind rapidly drying up the land, causing the going to 

 be better than I have seen it during the whole of the 

 season. Cantering along on a clever hack, I see a 

 grand expanse of grass, interspersed here and there 

 with small portions of ploughed land ; and I note that 

 the fences are big, but honest, and that there are some 

 very likely-looking covers. Arriving at the village of 

 Crick, I find an immense field assembled, numbering, 

 I was told, little short of five hundred well-mounted 

 men, with a large sprinkling of sportswomen, who 

 come to the meets of these hounds on business bent — 

 not for the sake of display. 



In the adjoining field, well out of the way of this 

 enormous crowd, is the noble Master, Earl Spencer, 

 with some twenty couples of first-rate hounds, at- 

 tended by Goodall, who hunts them this day, and two 

 well-mounted and sporting-looking " whips.''' Twice 

 in each week there are two packs out, in order to 

 accommodate all who hunt in the extensive district 

 embraced by the Pytchley, on which occasions the 

 noble Master takes the horn and hunts the one, whilst 

 Goodall has charge of the other, generally hunting the 

 Woodlands ; thus all the subscribers and hunting men 



