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including the check at Flash Dam, and the distance 

 covered could not have been less than seventeen miles. 

 The way hounds raced to Sydnop showed what a turn 

 of speed this pack possesses, and the patience with which 

 they hunted over the bad scenting ground at Eushley 

 shooting lodge could only be equalled by that displayed 

 by their master, who, if' he had not exhibited this first 

 quality in a huntsman to the fullest extent, could 

 never have recovered his fox at Elash Dam Plantations. 



A. W. Btroj^. 



Lord Harrington described to me what a wild and 

 picturesque sight it was to see the hounds racing over 

 the open moor, with the grouse getting up all among 

 them. 



L. C. M. 



Just as this collection of Song and Sport is being 

 printed, there come from all sides accounts of the 

 exceptionally fine runs with which the year 1 884 draws to 

 a close, a few of which are inserted if only to show that, 

 though we may be " dwindled sons of little men," yet, 

 with a good scent, a fair field, and some favour, the same 

 sport can be shown as by the giants of other days. 

 Lord Ferrers' run of December 15th measures rather a 

 longer distance, from point to point, than Mr. Meynell's 

 celebrated chase from Billesdon Coplow to Enderby, with 

 the additional superiority of a kill at the end ; and Mr. 

 Jarvis's successful journey in pursuit of a fox from Cod- 

 dington by Stubton and Claypole to Stoke and Syerston, 

 brought the Lincolnshire hounds further into Nottingham- 

 shire than they are ever known to have penetrated before. 



