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Hyde Springs and Lyons Hall Wood ; here, finding his 

 strength failing, he took to dodging about the covert, 

 running the water ditches, and doing his utmost to foil his 

 pursuers, but in \'ain, till, finding further efforts useless, 

 Reynard, with gallant consideration for the fair sex, gave 

 himself up within ten yards of the spot where stood three 

 ladies, who had persevered to the end of this brilliant run. 

 The time was two hours and five minutes from find to 

 finish, and the pace, at times very good, was all through 

 quite fast enough in the deep state of the country. 



"Yours obediently, 



" VULPISECUTOR." 



At the end of the season 1866-7, both Wilson and 

 J. Dent, the first whipper-in, left, the former getting the 

 berth ol huntsman to the Ouorn untler the casual master- 

 ship ol the unfortunate Marquis ot Hastings, while at 

 the termination (jf his brief reign he transferred his 

 services to Lord Henry Paget, now Marquis of Anglesey, 

 who was hunting the South Stafibrdshire country. 



In the fifth .season of his mastership, therefore, Mr. 

 Loftus Arkwright had to cast abcjut for a new huntsman, 

 and he exercised a wise choice when he ap|)ointed Stephen 

 Dobson, who for a dozen years, during which he carried 



