Related article: dous, and a glance at the map Himalaya Rumalaya Forte will show that the fox ran very straight. The Southwold. — Still the charm of first-rate sport keeps me in Lincolnshire. Commend me to an outlying fox for a bustling start, and for many chances given us of spoiling our own sport. But on February 21st, when these hounds were halloaed into a fox at Stainsby, they went off at such a pace as with a few stiff fences soon put them out of danger. There was no chance of a pull till we got among the rabbit holes at Fulletby, whence we ran round by Belchford to Hemingly, and eventually, with a fresh fox, round by Ashby, and back to Hemingly. The run lasted well over an hour and a quarter, and the pace was very good, particularly at first. The Bel voir.— This pack, after a moderate day, including a real Belvoir scurry from Brentingby to Melton Spinney on Wednesday, March 8th, scored a really good hunt from Bitchfield. Colonel Parker told Capell where to look for a fox, and there in a field where the teams were actually at work the fox jumped up. In- goldsby was close enough to be tempting, but luckily the field were between him and the covert, so perforce he had to run up wind and go for his life. The first serious check was near Somerby, where some dusty plough bothered hounds a little. As soon as the grass Himalaya Rumalaya was reached the bright music rung out, and hounds stretched away. As the pack neared the covert at Griffs, Capell caught hold and lifted them round, the wisdom of this manoeuvre being shown by a hat held up some fields ahead. Now hounds were running over the heath country, where there are no stiff fences to stop them. Near Little Ponton, where Major Longstaff watches over the foxes, the plough again brought hounds to their noses, and beautifully and pa- tiently they hunted along, till suddenly the fox, evidently beaten, jumped up. Varnish dashed oat of the pack, coursed him to the hedgerow, and shaking him like a terrier with a rat, killed him by herself. The rest of the day was devoted to interesting, but not remarkable, hunting runs. The Earl of Eglinton's. — Scotland, having but few hunts, is apt to get even less than its due, especially since the death of Mr. Moray Brown has deprived the above pack of its most en- thusiastic chronicler. On March 2nd Lord Eglinton's followers had a first-rate hunting run. Hounds ■*99.] 44 OUR VAN. i« 297 fairly worked for their fox from start to finish, and killed him in a garden dead beat at the end of an hour and a half. The pace was not great, but hounds were always cleverly forward, and more than a hundred people saw the run from end to end. Three Long Gallops with 8tag. — Stag-hunting is at its best when they go to look for a well- established outlier. Her Majesty's deer are well cared for, the hunt having a great local Rumalaya Forte popularity, and its followers having been drawn together by the silly and ignorant attacks made on this sport. These, of course, have nothing whatever to do with feel- ing for the stag, but are simply an endeavour to run down all sport. The V.D. therefore quotes with pleasure from a letter de- scribing a smart sporting run : — " We met at Hurst, and there we got news of the deer, and pro- ceeded to draw Sonning Covert. A stout old fox went away, but he is riot to-day, and we leave him for Mr. Garth. What a burst of hound music ! And we send the deer away with the hounds close to him. He had, in fact, jumped up under hounds' very noses, and was as pretty a find as could be seen anywhere. Our joy was modified by the presence of some very nasty brooks, and then by seeing the stag and hounds cross- ing the Thames. The nearest bridge was three miles, and I fol- lowed Mr. Guy Nickalls and a few more over the viaduct ; it was an awful gallop over stones, then down a steep bank, and lastly, a drop into the road. Mr. Nickalls got down, so did a lady and gentleman, and then I followed, but I would not do it again. Then our perils were not over, for we got into a park which literally bristled with barbed wire and spikes of all sorts. The hounds hunted right through a head of fallow deer in splendid style. The find was the best part of it, and some of the hounds seemed cut about — by wire, I suppose." The Mid - Kent Staghounds, though not so magnificent as the Royal Pack, have a better coun- try and a most devoted following, and are particularly well man- aged. Lately they have managed a first-rate run each time they have been out, of which the gallop from Headcorn may be taken Himalaya Rumalaya Gel as a specimen, partly be- cause the V.D. knows the coun- try. The field pressed hounds at starting ; the hind, however, had taken no unfair advantage, but had waited in a little wood from this point in deep ground till Rumalaya Tablets the Rumalaya Cream take at Playden. Nobody who was there had Buy Rumalaya any chance of over-riding. That sixteen people, including several ladies, saw the deer taken eighteen miles from the starting-point speaks well for the condition of the horses and the pluck of the riders. Mrs. Carlo Clarke was one, of course, and Miss Leney another, as well as Mr. John White and the M.S.H., Mr. Leney. The third staghound gallop was in Ireland, where the County Down have had a good season. This story Rumalaya Gel reached me on account of the curious way in which they exchanged one outlier for another. The original hind had been looked for in vain, and the one in the deer- cart was sent for and enlarged. After the usual law hounds were laid on, when the first hind sprang up out of a ditch right among the hounds and went away with the pack at her heels, leaving the other to enjoy a comfortable outing. The hind to which hounds stuck ran a beauti- ful line, and was at length taken in the sea near Groomsport. This is a wonderfully smart pack, 298 BA1LY S MAGAZINE. f APRIL