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finish in the open. Lord Berwick has been a thorough: 

 friend to the hunting men of Shropshire. He has shown 

 conclusively that foxes and pheasants can live together 

 at Attingham, and has never grudged the pleasure- 

 seekers of the county town and neighbourhood a day 

 in his park when the hounds came to Atcham Bridge. 

 I wish I could say that some visitors had not taken 

 advantage of this kindness to be heedless of their goings 

 and comings over private walks, grass plots, and lawns. 

 But Lord Berwick lays not this damage to the door of 

 the true foxhunters, and he looks to them to prevent 

 others doing rude and thoughtless things. Longnor 

 coverts have been almost tenantless this season, an 

 unwished for occurrence on the part of its owner, and 

 unlikely to occur again. In the South, Colonel Cotes, at 

 Pitchford, has done his best to have foxes, and will, I am 

 sure, continue to do so. Mr. Hulton Harrop's heart is in 

 the right place, and so we believe is Mr. Pelham's, at 

 Cound. Sir Frederick Smythe has never failed this 

 season to show foxes at Acton Burnell, and we honor 

 him for it, as he is not now able to join in the sport him- 

 self. Of the Condover property, '' the least said 

 soonest mended." There is, I hear, eveiy chance of better 

 things next season hereabouts. At Onslow we had one 

 foxey day, which cost Borderer some trouble. He will 

 not revert to it, because he desires to bury the hatchet, 

 in full assurance that there is now no bad blood between 

 him and Colonel Wingfield. The more to demonstrate 

 this, he has eliminated from these notes all reference to 

 the subject which led to a correspondence between him 

 and the Colonel, and trusts that foxes and phesants will 

 go together at Onslow in the future, as pleasantly as 

 Horses and Hounds have done in the pages of Eddoives's 

 Journal. Sir Baldwin Leighton has found foxes for us 

 twice at Loton, and each time has seen one killed. 

 Bowton Castle, now that the shooting is in the hands of 

 Mr. Shaw, will, next season, I am sure give us some runs, 

 especially if that pot-hunting neighbouring farmer will give 



