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have you had ? I heard of your killing heaps of cubs, 

 so I suppose the raw material abounds. I send 

 you a list, which I have marked with a few marginal 

 notes. 



^' We have done tolerably well as yet and had 

 a few little gallops. We have a loss in Jack, who 

 is laid up with bronchitis, which I fear will shut him 

 up most of the season. My father is better than he 

 has been, but still suffers from his leg at times. I 

 have been in Cheshire for a few days, and I don't 

 think even your field can beat the scampering gents 

 of that land. On Wednesday we had a good day, 

 beginning with a very fast fifteen minutes, in which 

 one man broke his collar-bone, one his arm, one 

 his horse's back ; one was in bed when I left 

 yesterday from a fearful shake ; Grosvenor himself 

 had a tumble and lamed his horse, and Lady Con- 

 stance hurt hers very badly. I never saw so many 

 falls in my life. 



" We are in our new house, which I shall be 

 proud some day to show to you and Mrs. Thomson. 

 I know it is out of the question to ask you now. 



" Pray remember me to her, and believe me, 

 " Yours ever, 



" H. F. Meynell Ingram." 



" Skeffington Hall, 

 '• Leicester, 12th December, 1864. 



" My Dear Thomson, — 



" I think you will find on inquiry that 



you have been misled as to the neutrality of the 



Husbands Bosworth coverts. Marston Wood and 



