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on the Saturdays and Mondays of the First October, 

 Second October, and Houghton weeks, motionless 

 behind the fir belts of that favoured country, ruminat- 

 ing, no doubt, upon the weights, acceptances, or odds 

 of the great handicaps, but watching the flag of the 

 driver over the turnips as keenly and closely as they 

 do that of Mr. Coventry on the Heath. 



The Duke of Cambridge succeeds his friend, the 

 late General Hall, at Six-Mile Bottom. Mr. Henry 

 McCalmont has purchased the beautiful estate of 

 Cheveley from the Uuke of Rutlandjit a figure which 

 goes far to reassure owners as to the rehabilita- 

 tion of values in land, and where he can occupy the 

 intervals between the victories of his horse Isinglass 

 in manoeuvring over almost the finest partridge 

 ground in England. The well-known Chippenham 

 Park estate, which disputes with Heveningham (Lord 

 Huntingfield's) the claim to be the birthplace of 

 partridge-driving, is shared between its owner, Mr. 

 Tharp, and his tenant, Mr. Warren De La Rue, who 

 also rents Tudnam from Lord Bristol, whilst at Uul- 

 lingham, the great Captain Machell, still one of the 

 surest shots as he was one of the best athletes of his 

 day, gauges the style of his neighbours behind a belt 

 with as shrewd a judgment as he would apply to the 

 weights of a handicap or the form of a two-year-old. 



