338 Tally ho, 



over the wild tract of land around the Land^s End, 

 and the vicinity of the renowned Logan Rock. The 

 principal fixtures are Madron Church Town, when 

 they draw around Trengwainton Carn, Gulval Cross, 

 Sancreed Church Town, the Logan Rock, the 

 Quakers' Burial Ground, the Land's End, etc. The 

 members and chief subscribers of the Hunt are nearly 

 all of the Bolitho family, though Sir John St. Aubyn, 

 of St. Michael's Mount, when his Parliamentary duties 

 will permit, is in the habit of joining them, as also does 

 Colonel Trelawney of Poltaire, Mr. Laity of St. Hilary, 

 and Mr. George Carter of Penzance ; the rest of the 

 field being made up of the farmers of the locality. 

 The huntsman, J. W. Thompson, is a Yorkshireman, 

 formerly whip to the York and Ainsty, a good-looking, 

 active and obliging man, well up to his business, and 

 noted as a good kennel huntsman, and for being 

 skilled in the management of his hounds. The whip 

 is Bill Nute, a son of Nute, a noted rider, who was 

 groom to the late Colonel Conyers, the Master of the 

 Essex Hounds. 



At the time of my visit the month of October was 

 drawing to a close, the leaves on the few trees that 

 are to be found in this granitic region had put on 

 their autumn tints. The morning was brilliant, and 

 the sky, deeply, darkly, beautifully blue. Then the 

 horn of the hunter is heard on the hill, and up trots 

 Thompson with the hounds. There being no time to 

 lose, we jog away for St. Buryan, a small village in 

 the vicinity of the Land's End — distant about ten 

 miles — and we make our way up and down the steep 

 and stony hills, until we reach that quiet hamlet which 

 is the *^^ fixture " of the day. 



To one accustomed to ride in the shires the prospect 



