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ott towards I'ptiMi. aiul toniul a capital liaro at j-jo in some tunii]')s, several 

 members ha\ iiii; |ire\ ioiisl\- i;ot disgusted and toddled off lioine. They never 

 made a f,M-eater mistake in their lives, for wc had an hour and a half's first-rate 

 sport. She first made for Clreasljy, headed back, and came down almost to 

 Moreton, then back aj:;ain and into a small cover on the Upton property, where 

 we fell in with a leveret and killed after a run of a few fields. Again got on our 

 old hare, and after a run back to where we first found her, she made straight 

 for Cireasby co\er, which was full of rabbits, and wc had to whip off. Tried 

 for another in making back for Moreton, without success. The " real dealers " 

 in the sport tolerably well " gruel'd." Twenty members. Kill No. i. 



Satirdav, OcTOBrR i6th, 1847. 



Met at Scacombe. Turned out near Wallasey Bridge, drew the covers 

 near Mr. Ripley's house and round by the church. After an hour's beat, at last 

 found in a turnip field belonging to a farmer called Maddocks. Away she went 

 towards the Copper Works, across part of the pool, and along the pool ; then 

 away across to Mr. Littledale's farm buildings, and back to the turnip field 

 where first found. She took the same round again, almost exacth', till back to 

 a field near the same turnip field. Here we had a check of about ten minutes 

 till she started up in the middle of the pack and again made to the pool, across 

 an arm of it, and tried to get back to Mr. Littledale's. She squatted in a 

 stubble, but they soon put her up and drove her into a ditch, where they at 

 once ran into her, after a gallant run of an hour and thirty-two minutes of as 

 good hunting as ever was seen, greatly to the delight of all who were out. 



l"he above account is interesting as relating to a part of the country 

 which lias not been visited by the R.R.B. for many years, and which 

 probably does not now hold a single liare. ^y. Joynson wrote the following 

 account of a meet in the same country in 1875, which was published in 

 the FiWd. 



A real live hare is a great rarity in the township of Liscard, but as there 

 was news of one knocking about. Col. King was kind enough to allow the pack 

 over for a search after it. Thursday, January 21st, at 10-30, they arrived, but 

 it rained so steadily and blew so stiffly, that the prospect of a good " tow-row " 

 was remote, did we even succeed in finding. However, a start w^as made 

 towards Earlston, where there was a seat from which she had been put only a 

 few days previously. The grounds were drawn blank, but the pack opened 

 merrily upon an adjoining clover root, which told us plainly she had been 

 feeding there in the early morning ; they could not, however, carry the quest 

 beyond the shelter of a high wall, and we now began to look over every inch of 

 ground. After some further delay, the hare was found sitting on a field of 

 Mr. Littledale's, between Sea View Road and Wallasey Church, and the pack, 

 being close by, were quickly after her, full cry. She made straight for St. 

 Hilary Brow, where there was a slight check, but the line was recovered by 

 the windmill, and then, without much dalliance, we passed down by Mosslands 

 to the Birkett. Following the water for some distance, we ran over an un- 

 inclosed country, and from all appearances were making straight for Hoylake, 

 but going eventually right-handed, we pointed for the upper end of Wallasey 

 village, on the way to which the pack went through a dirty drain and came 

 out as black as sweeps, presenting the most comical appearance, in fact, they 

 looked so much alike that it was impossible to tell " t'other from which." Near 



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