Related article: There was do que>:v.c «.-. — -?* pace from th,: n t-c: " «.- : houn is liter.*.' v :*:*-_ cc : - -~ Cubiin^ion t-"> ^ M - ,- . " ." .^ leaders took 12 zzrx v:- ._ --,* two hrst over b- -£ La;r 1_ '*- «^ and Mr. Gera .: B^r:. ~~^ that came a scerje o: ^~ ^ J ation. and in a lew rr -_-~ •-- stream was fiiii ,■>• — -^ L - - horses. Bear:-? ij :.->* .e rf _ r"i-r Cubhn^ton h:h. tr.e cr.ifi r: -:^ r :- :-- \\ ^r-~c Farm, Stewk.ev. *.\ere tr.-r.r 1— r was re-c.ptjrei and : ~ i.r en ded. J an uarv 2 - r i field- was the rmj-e. W. King: the bc-s: of :.-.« good hu-n o\er a the veri;:t ;r :n. ^- :*ei by those who r -ie tr,e r.r" Goins away by M*ss*rd Thame \ ahey to Uir.vjn. having brou^nt a dt^p a Jess district between and Kimble ur.cler it -a the hill overlooking the Ayiesf -jty Vale- A preliminary n-? mis worked out round the ba>e of :~ ;s eminence, and thus n.icv reserved their horses ur.tii hunt crossed the nd^e be: Ovin^ and the fixture, and sinking into the valley t;,e fun began in earnest. Holhc/rn H:h was on the left and Lionel Gorse on the right as the hounds ran on to Hard wick, crossed the An- bury road to The LiiiVvs/ and leaving Weaden behind' then:. t^it :o > 'Z rr.+ry tr.e 2l8 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [Makch caught him, a fine old dog fox, of the good wild Lincolnshire sort. Lord Galway's Hounds.— If we still keep to the Midlands, the famous Grove had a great run on February 3rd. Like the Billes- don Coplow day, the wind was forbiddingly keen, and the ground was so hard that Lord Gal way did not give Morgan the order to draw till after twelve o'clock. At Laneham two foxes were afoot, and hounds divided. Morgan made up his mind to one and the whippers-in smartly stopped the hounds from the other and got hounds together — a very good bit of work, and which practically made the run. The fox ran so curious a line as to suggest that he was driven out of his country, but at all events Morgan had the pleasure of seeing hounds roll him over under two hours after a twelve-mile point from where thirty started. This is the third twelve- mile point the writer has heard of since these notes were begun. The North Cotswold.— There are few packs less known to fame, but which have done better work than the above, since Captain Stacey took them. The meet was at Beckford Station on Feb- ruary 7th. After some fruitless draws the foot people kicked up an out -Iyer. There was scent enough to hunt, not enough to race ; on they hunted, working out the line beautifully for them- selves, and getting even on better terms with their fox before they reached Bradon Hill, in the Croome country. With the boggy ground at the bottom, its pre- cipitous sides, and the stiff stone walls on its slopes, Bradon Hill will stop any horse, and hounds were soon over the top and out of sight even of the leading horse- men. Some one caught a glimpse of some cattle on the move, and made a cast forward and saw hounds all by themselves running merrily on the line. Down the hill we had to scramble, and four only got to hounds, with the master's wife, Mrs. Stacey, not far behind, when they killed a tine old dog fox after an hour and half and something very like a twelve- mile point. The North Cotswold men were jubilant, they have had four good runs and killed a fox in each of the Croome, Heythrop, Cotswold, and Warwickshire countries ; it is said they did not actually cross the border into the Warwickshire, but the fox was a Warwickshire fox and the dis- tance so small "as makes no matter," as they say in these parts. Ireland— The Kildare. — Buy Lamprene This pack are losing their huntsman, Frank Goodall, who retires at the close of the season. Irish weather has been much the same as ours, and frost and sleet, rain and sun have alternated, so that hunting has been somewhat un- certain and precarious, and in the Kildare we have often been for days together uncertain whether or no we can go out to hunt. My correspondent says that being still doubtful of the weather on February 4th he did not join hounds till late and was rewarded for his prudence or pusillanimity — whichever you like to call it— by sharing in twenty minutes of the best from Cooltime Covert to Knockinally, where the fox went to ground. The huntsman of the Templemore Staghounds having faced a fence that stopped the whole of the rest of the field, had a fine gallop with these hounds all to himself. This fence and a wired enclosure prevented the field seeing much of the sport, but hounds ran beautifully for the greater part of an hour. Jim Brindley, of the Wards, has had a bad fall, so on January 30th the i«99J " OUR VAN/ 219 whipper-in carried the horn, and young Jim Brindley (aged 14) acted as whipper-in. Hounds soon struck on the line of an outlying hind they were looking for. Anxious to take her, hounds were clapped on to her back, but an hour and a half later the hind was grazing at her ease and a weary baffled pack were trotted back to kennels. The ground was deep, and horses could do no more. It will be seen that in Ireland, as in Eng-