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if made ? This would be a lift to foxhunting, for which 

 they would be gaining genuine thanks, and I am sure the 

 Shropshire ladies are such good sportswomen that they 

 will back up Borderer in this. Sir Vincent Corbet has 

 set a very good example in this matter, but I regret to say 

 that except Rowton, on the Duke of Cleveland's land at 

 High Ercall, there is not, to my knowledge, another 

 thriving young gorse in the country. A rumour reaches 

 me of one about to be planted at Pitchford. Well done 

 Colonel Cotes ; set an example, and I trust there will be- 

 plenty of followers. 



The rej)ort of one other sterling good day reaches me to 

 add to the long list of Ludlow successes this season. A 

 real wild hill run, every yard of which I can follow with 

 delight. Hopton Park was the starting point, the Mynde 

 Scrubs was skirted, and down over the Bucknell Brook to 

 Bull Hill, then over Stowe Hill, through heath that 

 always carries a rare scent, over HoUoway Rocks, and just 

 skirting the upper end of Coedetton, leaving Skyborry on 

 their left to Selly Hall, and straight on by the side of 

 Offa's Dyke to Trebert, where this gallant fox could flee 

 Eo longer, and sat up like a Soudanese Arab to meet his 

 fate, after one of the finest straightaway runs these 

 hounds have ever enjoyed. It could not le an inch less 

 than a 12-mile point, all over open hill country, and the 

 pace was a cracker the whole way. What could a genuine, 

 sportsman like Mr. Wicksted want better than this ? and 

 every member of his field appi-eciates such a run as this 

 quite as much without jumping as with it. He was killed 

 some miles in the United country, and it is well that this 

 stout breed of Clun Forest foxes is not extinct. 



Next week will, I fear, see a complete wind up of the 

 season hereabouts, although I hear there ir to be a last 

 meet at Wrekin about Easter. 



TWENTY SECOND WEEK— Maech 23 to 28. 



Sportsmen are proverbially charitable. It only needs to 

 set the ball rolling in the hunting field, or wherever silk 

 and scarlet assemble, and aid to many a good work is 

 always freelv given. I need therefore but mention to my 

 readers the National Aid Society, with the Princess of 



