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gone gallantly on the old chestnut Alabaster. It 

 was a great hound performance, for they never 

 wanted touching the whole time, and there was 

 only one slight check at Brandon, where the fox 

 had run the road. 



The coverts round Staunton Hall were a great 



KIRBY GATE, 1893. 



1. Frank Gillard. 2. Tom Firr. 3. The Hon. Mrs. L. Lowther. 4. The Hon. L. 



Lowther. 5. Capt. T. Boyce. 6. Mr. A. V. Pryor. 7. Lord Lonsdale, M.F.H. 

 8 and 9. Mr. and Mrs. James Hornsby. 



stronghold this season under the guardianship of 

 Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Phillips. Sir Walter Scott has 

 immortalised Staunton Hall, the old fifteenth 

 century house, in his novel The Heart of 

 Midlothian, when he makes Jeanie Deans come 

 there after leaving the shelter of Jericho Covert 

 the latter is good fox ground on the arch of the 

 Great Northern Railway tunnel. A very interest- 



