6 BUNTING AND SPOBTINC NOTES. 



who loathingly adapted themselves to circumstances, a 

 gallant colonel findmg Ihmself and horse on opposite 

 sides of this charming obstacle. It cost him another 

 wetting to regain his quad, and some hard riding ta 

 catch the hounds, which had gone to Styche, and then 

 over the brook for Little Drayton, describing a circle by 

 Tern Hill, towards Losford again, with more brook 

 jumping towards Styche again, where eventually he 

 went to ground at the end of two hours and forty 

 minutes. Altogether, Losford brook was crossed six 

 times, and I leave my readers to judge how many 

 immersions there were of those who declined to look for 

 a bridge — generally an average of one in six. 



While all this was being enacted on the Cheshire side, 

 the Shropshire were working away in the morning at 

 Lythwood, with a very bad fox that declined to show 

 sport, and was killed close to the Hall. A brace in 

 Bomere (this is an improvement on last season) were 

 headed at starting, and declined to trust themselves in 

 the open afterwards. From Pitchford, in the evening, 

 a fox went away to Eaton Mascott, disturbing another 

 en route from Golding plantation, so that foxes hereabouts 

 are not waiiting, and some fun mast be in store for us, 

 if earth stopping is attended to. 



The Albrighton, I should have said, found themselves 

 on Tuesday at four p.m., at Maer Hills, in the centre of 

 the North Stafford County, thirty miles from their 

 kennels, having started from Qffle}' Grove in the morning. 

 Had not three-and-a-half couple slipped away in front 

 of the other this would have been a grand run. Sk 

 Thomas Boughey has, I hear, promised to come into his 

 Newport country on a Saturday — this will be some 

 recompense to the Shrewsburyites for the loss of a 

 Whitchurch Saturday. 



The United on Friday, from Strefford's Bridge, enjoyed 

 the, to them, unusual prospect of finding a brace in 

 Felhampton square covert near the railway, not more 

 than fifteen acres in extent, and running there for two 

 hours without cessation, neither fox breaking and both 

 saving their lives. Another of this brilliant litter 

 declined even to get out of the way of the mail train last 

 week while eating a rabbit, and consequently the afore- 



