60 HUNTING AND SPORTING NOTES. 



speak on a future occasion. Your space will not permit 

 me to enter as fully as I would wish into the glories and 

 successes of that tight little hunt, the Ludlow, for the 

 last twenty-five years. I could recount many and many a 

 splendid run in which I have j^articipated with them, and 

 it is a pleasure seldom witnessed so strongly elsewhere to ese 

 the master's triumphs so genuinely entered into by one 

 and all who are there. 



There you never hear of quarrels, coverts closed against 

 the masters, jealousies, or bickerings. Whether people 

 are less hard to please there than elsewhere Borderer knows 

 not, but they are pleased, and no one for one moment 

 doubts that the best energies of a master's life are there 

 centred on showing sport from one end of his country to 

 the other. It will be only when the separation comes in 

 its cruel reality that the Ludlow men will realise their loss. 

 How truly the lines written of his father, by Warbiu'ton, 

 come back to us as we picture the son : — 



When scent on the fallow is failing, 

 Should a check from o'er ridino- ensue ; 



Hear Charlie the mischief bewailing, 

 "With soT-row so touching and true. 



Whoo-hoop ! There's an end of the scurry, 

 Now Charley with might and with main. 



First dances, then shouts •' Worry ? worry 1*' 

 Then shouts and then dances again. 



While Tve health to go hunting with Charley, 

 I envy no monarch his cro\yn. 



SIXTEENTH WEEK, Febeuaey 8th to the 13th. 



The full programme of Shrewsbury Spring Races and 

 Steeplechases is now out, and I hope will receive due 

 attention, so that when the 8tli and 9th of April come 

 round, sport will be in the ascendant. 



I had intended some copious notes on the Grand 

 National, l)ut my hunting jottings this week demanded so 

 much attention that I must forego the subject until nearer 



