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churchmen. But echo only answered Where, and the field, now 

 gathered and reformed (the last word in a military not in a 

 penitentiary sense), went on together to the next palish, that 

 of Creaton. Here our fox was crawling into a garden, and 

 whose should that garden be but that of the talented author of 

 the Pytchley Cookery Book ! Sixteen couple of hungry guests 

 rushed in, and then and there was served up a dish dainty 

 enough to set before a kino — a ragout of the black fox of 

 Berrydale. An hour and twenty minutes it had taken in the 

 cooking. Now we wiped our foreheads, and said a hearty 

 grace. 



A REMARKABLE WEEK. 



Dec. 19th, 1889. — Read as little of the following as you 

 choose, as much as you will. It has been my fortunate lot to 

 see sport in the last four days that might fairly suffice a month, 

 and that alone might make a season memorable. The Grafton, 

 the North Warwickshire, the Pytchley, and the Warwickshire 

 have made their mark in turn, for our grateful benefit, as you 

 may see crudely sketched below. 



Sport every Monday is the present happy lot of the Grafton, 

 and consequently of all who have the luck to hunt with them 

 on their Weedon side. Monday, Dec. 16, was marked by a 

 fifty-five minutes' gallop over the best of their ground ; as 1 

 will sketch briefly to-night in its turn, before three other packs 

 and their doings in succession shall have clouded my chronicle. 

 A warm morning, and a great good field, first witnessed the 

 killing of a brace of foxes on the Fawsley estate — over which 

 we galloped to full content of ourselves and first horses. To 

 complete the day, the glorious lady pack (there is no exaggera- 

 tion in the epithet) was taken on to Knightley Wood — and 

 were drawn out at 3.] 5. Home, of course ! Mantel's Heath 

 cut down, and nothing nearer than Canon's Ashby to draw. 

 The five minutes' deliberation was broken in upon by the best 

 of interruptions. Hark, holloa! Hark holloa!! An old fox 



