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were running round and round the covert in 

 two lots. It was now about 3.30, and a 

 great number of the field had gone home, 

 but the few who remained came in for 

 another grand run. Both foxes broke at the 

 same time, and ran almost side by side as 

 long as they were in view, parting eventually. 

 The hounds stuck to one, and held on at a 

 holding pace, pointing at first for Cutandly. 

 Half a mile short of this stronghold they 

 turned left-handed and travelled due east, 

 crossing the main road about half way be- 

 tween East Grinstead and Dormans. They 

 then ran on to Hammerwood, through some 

 of the coverts, and out on the north-east 

 side, skirted Holteye Common, and ran on 

 very near Cowden and into the West Kent 

 country, killing their fox at 5.20, with just 

 enough light to break him up. The exact 

 spot at which the run ended was never 

 quite known, for the light was very bad 

 during the last half hour, and all the few 

 who remained with hounds were ignorant of 

 the country after leaving Hammerwood. 

 About seven got to the end, and they, after 

 the obsequies were over, were completely lost 

 in the dark. It was 7.30 before any of the 

 party reached East Grinstead, where all the 

 horses were left for the night, except that of 

 the huntsman White, who reached the ken- 

 nels about 10 o'clock. Each of these two 

 runs had a point of at least eight miles. 



White, by the way, rode remarkably well 

 to his hounds that afternoon, and performed one 

 very singular feat. It was within half an hour 

 of the end of the second run ; hounds crossed a 

 narrow, but deep ghyll. The way into the 

 ghyll was over a low stile giving on a foot- 

 path, very narrow and much entangled with 

 thorns. The path ended at a flight of stone 

 steps, which went down some ten or twelve 

 feet to a small stream. On the opposite bank 

 there was a corresponding flight of steps. 

 White walked his horse down three or four 

 steps, took a standing jump across the stream, 

 and with a scramble landed on one of the 

 topmost steps at the opposite side. 



White came, as has been stated, from the 

 Goodwood country, and golf links were un- 

 known to him. One day hounds running 

 from South Hale to the southern corner of 

 Earlswood Common crossed the golf links. 

 White was in front, and a member of the 

 hunt seeing him point straight for one of the 

 greens shouted to him not to gallop over it. 

 White evidently had no idea what was meant, 

 for after turning round and failing to discover 

 the meaning of the warning he galloped right 

 over the green, shouting ' Ware hole ! ware 

 hole ! ' as he passed the hole, which happened 



that day not to be marked with the usual 

 flag. 



The Burstow kennels are at Smallfields, 

 about two and a half miles from Horley 

 station, and they hunt on Wednesdays and 

 Saturdays ; on Wednesdays in the southern or 

 forest half of the country, and on Saturdays 

 in the vale or northern district. Of late years 

 after Christmas they often hunt also on Mon- 

 days, going wherever it may be convenient. 



The Chiddingfold Hounds have been 

 in existence about as long as the Burstow, 

 the hunt having been founded by Mr. J. 

 Sadler in 1863. Previous to that year the 

 Sadler family hunted a part of the country 

 with a scratch pack, while the Surrey Union 

 came into the northern part of the present 

 Chiddingfold country until 1876, when Mr. 

 C. B. Godman took up the mastership, and 

 the country was re-organized on its present 

 lines. Mr. Godman resigned in 1883, and 

 was succeeded by Mr. Ellis Gosling, who in 

 1886 gave way to General F. Marshall. In 

 1892 Mr. T. Graham succeeded General 

 Marshall, and two years later Mr. Gosling 

 took a second spell of mastership, which 

 lasted only one season. Sir Frederick Mar- 

 shall was again elected master in 1895, and 

 his second term lasted five seasons until 

 his death in 1900. Mr. Cowley Lamberi 

 then came forward, but he gave up before 

 the season was over, and was succeeded by 

 the present master, Mr. G. H. Pinckhard of 

 Combe Court, Witley. Mr. Alfred Sadler 

 is the huntsman ; except for one very short 

 period amateur huntsmen have always carried 

 the horn with this pack. 



The Chiddingfold country, which lies 

 partly in Surrey and partly in Sussex, is not 

 a big country, being only about fourteen 

 miles from north to south and fifteen miles 

 from east to west. The traveller journeying 

 between London and Portsmouth by the 

 South-Western Railway enters it a mile or 

 two south of Guildford, and it extends south 

 to Haslemere and Hindhead, having the 

 H. H. on its western border. It then joins 

 Lord Leconfield's Hunt on its southern 

 border, touches the Crawley and Horsham 

 at its south-eastern corner, and has the Surrey 

 Union for its neighbour on the east and the 

 Garth Hunt on the north. From a riding 

 point of view the country is the worst in 

 Surrey owing to the great area of woodland. 

 Woodland and heather — the latter especially 

 in the Hindhead district — are in much greater 

 quantity than pasture and plough, though 

 there are some open spots, perhaps the best 

 being in the neighbourhood of Cranky on 

 the Surrey Union border. There is a good 



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