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Title: Hunting and sporting notes in Shropshire and Cheshire, season 1884-85 ...
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Borderer Mytton, H. F
Subjects: Horses Hunting -- England Shropshire
Publisher: London : A.H. Baily
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ood to his right, and Colonel Elvers Bulkeleysfavourite little clump of a covert hove in sight. Anothercheck here, and then once more the chase was continuedby Broughali to London and North Western Eailway atthe Brick Kiln crossing, where Thatchers powers wereout-witted, and this grand fox made good his escape inSir Watkins country, after a ran of an hour and twentyminutes, or thereabouts. All accounts agree that nohuntsman could have ridden better to his hounds, orhandled them better than Thatcher did, and I am pleasedto hear this from disinterested persons, who seldom havethe means of giving an opinion. It will be invidious tomention those who distinguished themselves, but when Isay that among those present there was a Bulkeley, aGore, a Jones, more than one Hill, a junior Lonsdale,and a young lady from Hinton way, I need notparticularise further. I am indebted to a friend for a capital account of theSouth Cheshire day on Tuesday. Tuesday, February the 3rd, at Wilkesley. There was a
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At Wilkesley with Mr. Corbet. 57 yery big field, and Mr. Corbet gave a little law for thespecials to put in an appearance, so that when hetrotted off to Kents Eongh, no one could complain aboutbeing left behind. Kents Eough, altough it was all cut uplast spring, held a fox, but he was a shockingly bad one.He first of all broke away on the North Stafford side,but soon turned to the left, and after ringing round a fewmiles, Kents Eough was agaiu visited, then out on Mr.Corbets side ; he ran into a small covert below his house,where he was soon chopped. No. 2 was produced fromMr. Corbets cover in the Park, but immediately went toground. A terrier and a man wdth a spade soon made thetenement too hot, and out he bolted right into the jaw^s ofthe hounds. Shavington was our next draw, and althoughSir Watkins followers spent nearly an entire day therethe previous Wednesday, bustling about, foxes were justas plentiful to day, three jumping off what is called theIsland, in the Big Wood, at once

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