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A LEICESTERSHIRE SEASON, 1882-83— continued. 



.Scraptoft Hall at Tea-time for Max and Fox . . 112 



A Cool, Quick, Penultimate 118 



A Choking Finish 123 



JACKAL HUNTING ON THE NEILGHERRIES, 1876 . . 126 



THE SOUTHERN MIDLANDS, Season 1885-86 . . .140 



Fawsley, a First, and Notable, Experience . . . . 14a 



A Bursting Fall 149 



LEICESTERSHIRE 151 



JACKAL HUNTING ON THE NEILGHERRIES, 1877 . . 155 



The Ootacamuxd Hounds 155 



GRASS COUNTRIES, Season 1886-87 171 



Shooting Coats 171 



A First Taste of the Open 175 



The Galloping Whip 177 



Preliminary Canters 178 



Fox-Hunting in Earnest 183 



A Rough Week 190 



A Huntsman's Diary, and Mine 194 



How we Fall — and How Prevent it . . . - . . 199 



From "Welsh Road Gorse with the Warwickshire . . 203 



Saint Valentine 207 



March Moments 212 



Weedon Barracks the Centre 214 



From Braunston Gorse at Last — A Tale of the Brook . 216 



THE WILD STAG ON EXMOOR 222 



The Quantocks 234 



ROEBUCK SHOOTING ON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE . 248 



