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apprentieesliip with tlie Shropshire, so that we have a 

 double interest in Johnson, and wish him well in every 

 way. Perhaps the Ludlow bears away the palm for sport, 

 next to Mr. Reginald Corbet, this season. 



The Wheatland I have been unable to write of this 

 season, but am living in hope as regards the future. Mr. 

 J. C. Allen retires from the mastership at the end of the 

 season, and his successor has been chosen, but I am not 

 now in a position to speak of him or the prospects of this 

 tight little sporting hunt. 



The United pack also have certainly cause to growl at 

 their old friend Borderer for not having taken any 

 notice of them during the season I can only plead 

 guilty, and trust in their clemency^and forgiveness. Many 

 is the happy day that I have enjoyed with the United 

 pack, from the early days of old Rob ert Luther down to 

 a couple of seasons back with John Harris. Indeed, it 

 wag Luther that gave me aiy first honestly won brush, 

 when we found a fox in Lingen Valletts, and ran him to 

 Stanage, over Reeve's Hill to Norton, across the river 

 Lugg, to the Beggar's Bush and Evancoyd, to 

 Womaston, over Knill Garroway, and, turning down, 

 killed him in the river Hindwell, close to Knill Court. 

 I was just eight and a half years old, but can remember 

 every turn of that run as if it was yesterday, and can see 

 plainly one man plunging into Evancoyd Pool by 

 mistake, and his horse swimming about in it. Old 

 Luther fastened the brush on the crupper of my pony's 

 (Old Lion) saddle, and told me was " a made 



sportsman." He little knew perhaps how much that 

 speech had to answer for, and how but for that flattering 

 encouragement Borderer might have . ^ . No, 

 come this won't do, these egotistical recollections have 

 no proper place in this diary. 



I am indebted to Mr. Mytton for the illustrations of 

 these notes. There is much in a name, but there is more 

 in a lineal descent. Never was a truer example of a 

 grandfather's love of sport displayed in the grandson. 



