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brilliant exceptions, and his great hard-riding field have 

 been wonderfully entertained and kept in order. Borderer 

 has been unable to do justice to many of their best days. 

 Two things are lacking to him for the enjoyment of South 

 Cheshire — first rate horseflesh, and more unemployed 

 leisure. He still lives in hope. 



Sir Watkin Williams Wynn has without a doubt had a 

 better season than last year. Has killed more foxes, 

 and had some straightaway runs with blood at the end 

 of them. Last year Goodall was fresh to the country, 

 and I hardly saw him catch a fox in the Whitchurch 

 country. This year he has killed many, some of them, 

 no doubt, bad ones, and has chopped too many to please 

 me ; still it is but justice to him to say that he has had 

 more that an average season, and he will take with him, 

 into whatever country he goes, the credit for being a 

 determined horseman and a keen sportsman. "Not quite 

 the man to have followed Payne or Walker, 

 undoubtedly, and, while I write, all hunting ears in the 

 West Midlands are on the qui vive to catch the name of 

 his probable successor, for where is the hunting-man 

 who does not pray for the Wynnstay kennel prestige to 

 be kept up ? and to see a first-rate huntsman installed 

 in that princely establishment ? 



The Albrighton have had to contend with greater 

 difficulties perhaps this year than any other Shropshire 

 pack, on account of the dry weather acting unfavourably 

 on their light ploughs, and yet they have, gained a 

 creditable verdict at my hands. Perhaps I have 

 been lucky in seeing them in their best scenting 

 country, still I fancy their record of foxes will 

 prove a good one. As a pack of hounds they are 

 beautiful, especially the bitch pack. So much music, 

 drive, and hunt, I have seen nowhere else except it be in 

 the Ludlow. Sir Thomas Boughey goes on for another 

 three years, greatly to the delight of all. He has the 

 true sport at heart, has studied the business, and backed 

 up by such a thorough sportswoman as Lady Boughey, 



