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fox's dodge is at this point, as it all appears plain sailing, 

 and there is no apparent reason for scent failing so 

 suddenly. Thus ended a very pretty gallop, and by no 

 means a bad day. 



I heard a good story in the field of a farmer, who lost 

 a lamb the other day, and of course its death was put 

 down to a fox. Further research, however, revealed the 

 poor little brute in the ditch of an adjoining field in a 

 very weak state. The only thing to do to save its life 

 was a " go " of whiskey, but the master was a 

 teetotaller, and he had co rush off to a neighbour for the 

 necessary draught, and so the truth came out. Foxes 

 are not to be killed this time wrongfully. 



The account of a good run reaches me from the 

 Eadnorshire and West Hereford, in which the Wolf pits 

 plantation above New Eadnor, and bordering on Sir 

 Herbert Lewis's grouse hills was the place of departure. 

 This fine old mountain fox went due eastward to 

 Gladestry and Kingswood, then, circling round, came back 

 over Hargest Eidge and the racecourse, to Worzel, and 

 Stanner Eocks, which afforded him no safety to-day, and 

 they killed him in capital style in the turnpike road, at 

 Bilmore, after a run of two hours and fifty minutes. 



TVV^ENTY-THIRD WEEK— April 1 to 6. 



I should have mentioned last week that the folloAvdng' 

 ladies are collecting subscriptions for the National Aid 

 Society in Shropshire : — The Countess of Bradford, Mrs. 

 Arthur LLoyd, of Leaton Knolls, and Mrs. Spencer 

 PhilHps, of the Mount. 



Bangor Steeplechases will have been a thing of the past 

 ere this is in print, and they promise to be as locally 

 popular as ever. The course is, I hear, a big one, and the 

 fields are not likely to be large. Easter week is so full of 

 meetings in every part of England that horseflesh, not 

 being ubiquitous, has too many calls made upon it to show 

 up in very strong numbers anywhere. The absence of Sir 

 Watkin will be painfully felt ; and indeed his state of 

 health is such as to cause earnest solicitude throughout 



