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back touching Bodkin Wood, near Petty France, and 

 back thro' ye Hazle. I viewed him from hence, some 

 distance, apparently in difficulty — ye hounds follow- 

 ing steadily thro' ye covert on his line, did not get 

 so quick away as I could have wished. On leaving 

 Chalkley on ye left, into ye vale again, when we had a 

 check of two or three minutes, hit off, and went a good 

 pace over ye lower end of Hawkesbury Common into 

 Littley, and up ye woods to ye further end of Maple 

 rudge, back along ye covert towards Bays. 1 here 

 viewed ye fox away, and was damped to find we had 

 changed our fox ; hunted down into Bays, and stopped 

 ye hounds. Yery good day's sport — worth 1000 o£ your 

 10, 19, or 15 minutes' skurries to a lover of hunting. 

 Mr. Campbell, Mr. J. Bailey, and Mr. R. Kingscote 

 went as well or rather better than any other ; Mr. 

 Campbell screaming in raptures as we got near Bodkin 

 Hazle. Blood only was wanting to render this run all 

 that could be wished by a sportsman. 



C.(Chas. Bridges) 

 Gamecock 

 Miss Tree 



(Long) L. (Stansby) S. 



Milkman Marion 



Archduke Etonian 



1845. — This season we have an addition to our 

 country of Stoke Gilford coverts, &c., conceded by Earl 

 Eitzhardinge. Though some of them ye Duke of Beau- 

 fort's property, they have been hitherto a part of ye 

 Berkeley hunt. Eood Ashton, near Troubridge, also 

 belonging to Walter Long, Esq., and hitherto hunted 

 by Mr. Horlock, is now to be hunted by the Duke of 

 Beaufort. 



There was an immense quantity of corn grown this 

 year. The spring was everything that could be desired ; 

 crops most luxuriant; in fact, I believe most people 

 will admit that they never remember to have seen the 



