26o Tally ho. 



Mr. and Miss Beecli of Brandon^ Mr. Henry Madocks, 

 Mr. C. W. Wilcox, Mr. Walker of Weedon, Mr. T. W. 

 Rhodes and his son, General Cureton, Mr. Samuel 

 Baker and his son, all the Bugby men, and those 

 residing at the George, including Count Kalman 

 Almasy, who has taken up his abode at this hotel for 

 some months, during the stay of the Empress of 

 Austria at Cottesbrook in fact, having a capital stud 

 of hunters provided by Mr. George Cox of Stamford 

 Street, amongst which I hear there is a clinking good 

 brown mare, which I shall not fail to observe on my 

 next visit to the Pytchley. Count and Countess 

 Stockau, a lady who rides extremely well to hounds, 

 and seems to enjoy the fun immensely. Captain 

 Hunter, Mr. S. Darby, etc. etc. 



" Halloa in, Halloa in there,-*^ cries the huntsman, 

 and scarcely a minute elapses ere a whimper is 

 heard, then a chorus of most musical notes, then a 

 crash, and I view a noble fox breaking cover and 

 going in the direction of a splendid line of country ; 

 then Wheatley brings his hounds to the halloa, and 

 they overrun the scent, and before they have time to 

 settle down to it, back comes the fox, who had been 

 headed, slap through the very middle of the pack, and 

 being coursed by four or five couples of hounds, only 

 saves himself by the skin of his teeth, and regains the 

 cover. 



However, he is not allowed to remain there very 

 long, for the whole pack are soon at him, and he bolts 

 at the further end, crossing the brook and going away 

 like steam, running for a mile or two parallel with the 

 Old Street-road, then turning sharp to the left he 

 goes a burster, crossing the Clifton Brook, and on by 



