8 HUNTING AND SPORTING NOTES. 



and without a second horse it seemed cruel to go on to 

 Hardwicke, with the ahnost certain contingency of 

 finding another fox. The country rode very heavy and 

 strange to say with a bad scent. I daresay Borderer 

 will be scolded for finding fault, but, oh ! if our 

 Shropshire field would only restrain their ardour, 

 especially along the roads, when hounds are not running 

 in front of them, and also their voices when they view 

 foxes in the open, when hounds are close at hand, how 

 much they would contribute to sport. 



THIED WEEK, Xovembek 9th to 14th. 



Events that have interested sporting men and women 

 have come upon us thickly this last week, and helped to 

 check the political mania so rife amongst us. 



A link with the past generation has been broken. The 

 familiar form of Mrs. Clement Hill has passed away 

 from amongst us. The daughter of Mr. John Mytton, 

 of Halston, better known as " Jack Mytton," Mrs. 

 Clement Hill inherited, in a marked degree, his nerve 

 and sporting tastes. In the heyday of her life few 

 could cross a country or enjoy sport as she could, and 

 she entered into it with a gusto seldom seen in her sex 

 now^-a-days. AYhen no longer able to ride she rarely 

 missed a meet on wheels with the Cheshire, Sir Watkin, 

 or the Shropshire, that came within a ten mile radius of 

 "Whitchurch, and her familiar figure has been depicted 

 most effectively in Borderer's Sporting Notes of 

 1884-85, by her nephew. In marrying into the Hill 

 family she added another cor.nection between the three 

 great families, with which sport in Shropshire will 

 alw^ays be connected — the Corbels, Hills, and ]\Iyttons. 



Turning to a pleasanter subject I find the week's 

 calendar chronicles the marriage of Miss Biddulph, of 

 Chirk Castle, with Mr. H. T. Barclay. Happy in every 

 sense is this sporting match, and w"e trust that Shrop- 

 shire and Cheshire pastures will occasionally tempt 

 these young people to forsake Leicestershire, just to 

 show us how our easier, and \'et more varied country 



