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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
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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
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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-