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at a clinking pace ttirougli Newtimber Park Wood^ 

 being finally run to ground in Newtimber Holt, after 

 running about thirty-five minutes. It is evident that 

 there is no lack of foxes, and that Mr. Streatfield uses 

 every exertion to satisfy the supporters of the South 

 Down, as the veriest glutton could not have failed to 

 be satisfied with the day^s work. Noticeable amongst 

 the number who persevered to the end of the day 

 was Mdlle. Lasky, a youthful huntress of some ten or 

 twelve years of age, accompanied by little ^^ Lottie 

 Dupont,^^ and piloted by Parsons, both mounted on 

 rare ponies, going well, and crossing at one time a 

 difficult line of fences. There is nothing like training 

 up a child in the way it should go, and I was pleased 

 to find that Champion, in admiration of the courage 

 and skill of Mdlle. Lasky, had decorated her with the 

 brush for distinguished services in the field, which is 

 to be taken in due time as a trophy to St. Peters- 

 burg. 



I have often heard people speak contemptuously of 

 Sussex as a hunting country. I do not, of course, 

 seek to maintain that it is equal to Leicestershire or 

 Northamptonshire ; but as everyone has not the good 

 fortune to be able to visit those crack counties, my 

 experience of the weeVs sport I witnessed is sufficient 

 to enable me to say that if a man is fond of hunting, 

 and can ride with nerve and judgment, he may go 

 further and fare worse than at Brighton, following 

 the South Down, the Brookside, or the Brighton 

 Harriers, at his pleasure. The facilities o9"ered by 

 the railway company, and the time occupied in the 

 journey being so short, opportunities are afforded to 

 dwellers in the metropolis, with but little trouble or 



