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welcome visitors from the same country. The 

 Belvoir also in that same week had an excellent 

 run from Sproxton Thorns. The fox was such a 

 long time in leaving covert that every one made 

 sure it was a cub, and after being well hustled it 

 did not seem likely he could last long in the open. 

 The result was several men rather took liberties 

 with their horses and had to be content with a 

 position in the rear before the end of forty-five 

 minutes, when hounds killed. Saltby church. Buck- 

 minster Park and the finish at Coston does not spell 

 out a very good line, but the beginning and the end 

 was over as nice a country as the most fastidious 

 could desire. 



The cub-hunting season should always be looked 

 upon as a time when the master's only considera- 

 tion is the making of his hounds and the visiting of 

 his coverts. We, the onlookers, are only there on 

 sufferance, and these rehearsals are not for our 

 amusement ; but we can't be blamed if a run does 

 come off occasionally, and, of course, enjoy it all 

 the more for being unexpected. 



There were some very cheery mornings that 

 October, and I should like to see a repetition of 

 those gallops ; but suppose age might prevent me 

 participating in them with quite the same spirit as 

 of yore. 



I had almost forgotten the last day's cubbing 

 with the Quorn, which contained a really first-class 

 run. An excellent country to ride over, hounds 

 running fast with hardly a check, and a seven-mile 

 point, are features that give character to a hunt 

 at any period of the season. 



The usual business-like morning, a litter roused, 



