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Title: Fifty years' fox-hunting with the Grafton and other packs of hounds
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Elliott, John Malsbury Kirby Elliott, Edward Kirby
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting Foxhounds
Publisher: London : H. Cox
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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and drove regularly, and saw a good deal•of the sport. The Bicester. I first visited the Bicester Hounds in the year1844, on a day when the fixture was at Trafford.Mr. Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake had been Master forsome years, and had gained the goodwill of hisfarmers and followers. He enjoyed the highestreputation which a country gentleman couldpossess, namely, that he was a good landlord,and a fine sportsman. After being sufficientlylong at the head of affairs he had become theowner of a fine pack of hounds. Everything wasof the best, the men were well mounted, clever,intelligent, and civility itself. On this occasion Mrs. Drake was also out, andAvhen I first caught sight of her was shaking handswith a fine old yeoman named Greaves. No one could help being struck with thegentlemen at the meet. There were Lord Jersey,of Bay Middleton fame; the Hon. P. S.Pierrepont of Evenley ; Mr. Cox, and his son;Mr. Slater Harrison of Shelswell; the Rev.John Drake, brother of the Squire ; and many ir*f
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F^ H The Bicester. 285 others, Including the young Squire, Mr ThomasTyrwhitt Drake, jun. ; the Rev. Mr. Bennett;also a number of hard-riding farmers—Messrs.Cowper, Selby, Hitchcock, and his son GeorgeHitchcock, Ivens of Eydon, Horn of Trafford,and many others. It happened to be the last day of the season.We did not readily find, but at last ThenfordGorse proved a success, and away we went oversome large fields and strong fences. The youngSquire was all on the go and, jumping a fence onmy left, down he fell, horse and all, heavily. Icaught the horse and took it back to him, askingif he were hurt. He said, No, he has not hurtme, but I think he must have shaken himself;it generally happens the other way. That wasmv introduction to one of my most agreeableacquaintances. \\e had a real good thirty minutes, and ran thefox to ground in the Grafton country, then huntedby Lord Southampton Mr Drake said that hewould not put a dog in, and would leave it to meto see that the fox might not be in

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