has mastered it; how seldom can this be said of M.F.H.'s? 

 Hehas done wisely too in making Captain Boycott 

 Wight his deputy-master on the Worcestershire side, 

 who, now that he has gone to live at Kudge, is as 

 excellently placed in that country as Aqualate is badly 

 so for Sir Thomas to reach it. I trust that Scott and 

 his whips will continue as servants, for no set of men 

 that I have seen this season work better together, and are 

 keener to show sport than they are. 



The Shropshire ought perhaps to have taken 

 precedence of the Albrighton in my remarks, as being 

 the central county pack, yet I believe the Albrighton are 

 of about equal date in point of institution with the 

 Shropshire, as Nimrod gives an account of them in his 

 Shropshire tour, when, under the mastership of Mr. 

 Boycott, of Eudge, no doubt an ancester of Captain 

 Boycott Wight's, they hunted at Chillington and 

 Apley, at the same time that Sir Bellingham Graham 

 took the Shropshire. 



The life of the Shropshire has fallen on pleasant paths 

 inasmuch as no pecuniary diliiculties trouble them ; no 

 insufficiency of staff; no lack of horseflesh; no half- 

 hunting their country, has to be complained of. Lord 

 Hill's successor was hard to find, as I have said in my 

 notes, but he has been found, and Mr. Hey wood Lonsdale 

 has inaugurated his first season in a style that bids fair 

 to win him a name and fame as an M.F.H., and to 

 enrol him among the long list of Shropshire! worthies. 



o expense is spared to make every appointment up to 

 mark — just as it should be, without bunkum or show. 

 The Shropshire hounds, thanks to Lord Hill, ably aided 

 by Thatcher, are, without the slightest shadow^ of a doubt, 

 a beautiful pack. Such symmetry, dash, and tongue, com- 

 bined with handiness. Borderer has seldom seen 

 equalled, and on the flags, he thinks Shropshire can 

 show three packs of hounds that any county in England 

 would be proud of, and these are the Shropshire, the 

 Albrighton, and the Ludlow. 



