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found a nice litter of cubs in Beachetts, the first, Mr. Gerald Buxton (who 

 has the shooting of this covert) assured me, that had ever been bred there. 

 We ran one cub very nicely through Shalesmore and lost it near Buttons, 

 and we finished off the day in a vain endeavour to try and force a fox 

 out of Weald Coppice. 



I noticed the following out during the morning's sport : Mr. C. E. 

 Green, Mr. Tyndale White, Mr. and Mrs. Arkwright, Miss Bagot, Mr. F. 

 Ball, Miss Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Barron, Mr. G. Buxton, Miss T. and Miss 

 Maud Buxton, the latter just back from Africa where she had accompanied 

 her father, Mr. Edward North Buxton, upon a most successful hunting 

 expedition — not free by any means from dangerous adventure. On one 

 occasion Mr. Buxton was charged by a lion just as he had brought one 

 down ; his daughter, seeing his danger, warned him just in time, and he 

 shot the second one at very close quarters. Another time they (father and 



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daughter) were bicycling along a path when they encountered a lion. 

 Fortunately the two bicycles were too much for the animal's nerves and he 

 made off. What has all this to do with fox-hunting ? someone remarks. 

 Nothing, my friend, except that Mr. Buxton and his daughter found that 

 the presence of mind and quickness of decision which the hunting field had 

 certainly helped them to acquire stood them in very good stead on these 

 and other occasions. Others out at Coopersale on the 2nd : Miss Chisen- 

 hale Marsh, Mr. W. H. Baddeley, Mrs. Clarke, Mr. Walter Cook, Mr. 

 Newman Gilbey, his first appearance, Fred Green, Colvin Farnell- Watson 

 who had lately returned from Ceylon, where he had been hunting jackal ; 

 Messrs. Avila, H. Sworder, S. Fitch, R. Tilhng, S. Caldwell, John White, 



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