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In the Yale of Aylesbury, Sir Nathaniel de 

 Kothschild will give hard-goers a chance of riding 

 over his brilliant pack of hounds, if they can. When 

 an hour has passed across the Yale, I venture to 

 predict that Fred Cox, who has hunted these hounds 

 for three or four and twenty years, will find "the 

 field " reduced to a select few, looking at the state of 

 the country after the heavy rains and floods. In 

 Hertfordshire, Mr. Richard Rawle will, as usual, show 

 some first-rate sport, chasing the deer over the open 

 country around Berkhampstead, Tring, and St. Aljbans. 

 Across the Roodings of Essex, the Hon. H. W. Petre 

 will enable those who like to go the pace, and are not 

 afraid of the wide ditches that are the feature of the 

 country, to try how long they can live to hounds when 

 they have a stout deer before them. 



Last, but not least, in the category of first-class 

 hounds, are those of Her Majesty. These Royal 

 Buckhounds, of which the Earl of Cork and Orrery 

 is now the master, will meet on Tuesday, according to 

 time-honoured custom, at Salt Hill. After some weeks 

 of forest- hunting, Frank Goodall, whose marvellous 

 care and attention to the fine hounds under his care 

 must be seen to be duly appreciated, will show as 

 handsome and useful a lot as can be found in Her 

 Majesty's dominions. 



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