Caynliam Camp — SJireivsbiiry Baces. 9 



the streaming pack were seen to go right over its conical 

 summit, only to circuit back again into the main earths in 

 the Stones. Fast enough for anything, a trifle under half- 

 an-hour, and not a semblance of a eheck. A turn of our 

 horse's head to the wind, and such a panorama as 

 even the Wrekin could not excel, met our delighted gaze. 

 The afternoon at Caynham Camp I was obliged to miss, 

 as trains must be caught — of one thing, however, I took 

 accurate bearings, and that is that the Ludlow are in good 

 form this year, and will be heard of to advantage again 

 before long. 



Three letters reach me this morning of the red letter 

 day on Saturday with the Ludlow after I left. The 

 identical spinney — all honour to Mr. Wood — produced a 

 second fox, that took them again straight to the Stones to 

 ground. Caynham Camp produced a clipper that took 

 them at a cracking pace by Maggoty Hill and Knowbury, 

 across the road to Whitton Court and Hope Court, to the 

 Knowle, then for the Court of Hill and Corley Coppice, 

 where he faced again for the hill, by Dorrington Church, 

 across the Titterstone below the Stones, to the Three 

 Horse Shoes and Loughton, nearly reaching Burwarton, 

 when darkness compelled a surrender on the part of the 

 pursuers. Two and a half hours — a splendid run, as 

 those who know the country will testify — foxes must have 

 been changed somewhere by the Knowle. 

 "■ A -fig for your Leicestershire swells, 

 While Wicksted such sport can ensure." 



THIRD WEEK, November U to 16. 



Somehow or other it was impossible to get up any 

 excitement over Shrewsbury races this year. By a pro- 

 cess of inanition since Mr. John Frail's days, this once 

 popular and aristocratic; gathering has slowly snuffed 

 itself out. Messrs. Frail, the present lessees, had a 

 godsend in the Royal Agricultural Show, which paid them 

 two years' rent for a short occupancy, and now they have 

 taken the goodwill of the meeting, so to say, in the days 

 of fixture, to Northampton for next year. If Shrewsbury 

 races are to be revived, the course must be fenced in and 

 made a gate-money venture. The rent, about .£400 a year, 



