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showed himself to be a huntsman, as in obedience to the 

 master's wish he let them alone. Grigg Hill delayed 

 hounds, its gorse is so thick, and a little time w^as lost in 

 getting away to Shelvock, where he w^as viewed, 

 and we pegged on after him over the brook towards 

 Prado, then right-handed in front of Tedsmore House, in 

 the plantations beyond which w^e got up to him. Once 

 more there was a rally, as he made a last dash for his 

 life down towards Eednal, w^here he, too, yielded his 

 brush in a cottage garden. The third dog fox of the day, 

 and all caught in the open. No. 3 had kept us going 

 just an hour. It was only two-thirty p.m., but all 

 voted it quantum suff., and turned happily and contented 

 homewards. Well done, Mr. Walford — plenty of the 

 animal in your coverts — and to-days victim wdll soon be 

 replaced, let us hope, by some new comers, of even better 

 wind than their predecessors. 



EIGHTH WEEK, December 14th to 19th. 



The hope of bringing the Grand National Hunt 

 Steeplechases to Shrewsbury in the spring has been 

 dashed to the ground, the committee choosing Malton by 

 a narrow majority. Unfortunately two or three of our 

 friends could not attend, and hence the adverse vote. 

 Yorkshire has already had these steeplechases at 

 Wetherby, while Shropshire has never been similarly 

 honoured. Your readers will, how^ever, be glad to hear 

 that the directors of the racecourse are by no means 

 disheartened, and that they intend the cater for a 

 thoroughly enjoyable meeting in April, when each and all 

 the local hunts will have chances distinguishing 

 themselves, and a carefully-prepared programme will 

 very soon be issued, which will embrace steeplechasing 

 and flat racing in equal proportions, and an effort is being 

 made to time it with the Ludlow Club meeting, so that a 

 regular old fashioned Shropshire week will be the order of 

 the day when hunting is over, and the country houses 

 w^ill be full. 



The little fox terriers at the show last w^eek were a 



