Fox-hunting Past and Present 



plenty of foxes, and practicable fences afford 

 pleasure to all the field. This is an Ai country for 

 a man without an eye to a country : here ignor- 

 ance of your whereabouts is bliss. No less attrac- 

 tive is the Belvoir fixture at Folkingham ; there are 

 famous coverts here, stout foxes, and wide fields. 

 Here you goX plenty of galloping if there be a scent 

 at all ; here you see that grand pack, the Belvoir, 

 to its best advantage. One more fine hunt and 

 fixture can be visited on a Friday — the Warwick- 

 shire, at Wroxton Abbey, to boot. This is on the 

 Banbury side of the country. Good scent here is 

 rather the rule than the exception. Notes on these 

 favourite meets can be prolonged ad infin, I must 

 refer you to the Field any Saturday during the 

 season, with some kind friend who can recount 

 you days after hounds with this pack or that, the 

 shires alone being referred to above. 



" Every species of fence, every horse, doesn't suit. 

 What's a good country hunter may elsewhere prove a brute." 



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