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nets ; two pairs of lark nets ; one partridge net ; 

 various rabbit traps, in lots ; one hundred and twenty- 

 eight vermin traps of every description ; one badger 

 cub ; two fox cubs ; thirteen dog kennels ; fourteen 

 ferret boxes ; three cages for wild animals ; nine bird- 

 cages ; sixteen pair of quoits ; two sets of bowls ; 

 sundry cricket-bats and balls. 



The euns ran to six rifles of various bores ; nine 

 double-barrelled guns ; four single ; with some dozens 

 of powder-flasks, shot belts, and gun-cases ; and the 

 saddle-room would, no doubt, have told as significant 

 a tale. 



As something of a finish, for to this it was fast 

 coming, Mytton never made himself much more con- 

 spicuous in the field than he did upon what was 

 well known in the hunting circles of Cheshire, Shrop- 

 shire, and Staffordshire, as " The Shavington Day." 

 This was an arranged trial of speed, nose, and bottom, 

 between the fox-hounds of Sir Harry Mainwaring, 

 of Peover Hall, Cheshire, commonly called "the 

 Cheshire hounds ; " the pack kept jointly by Sir 

 Edward Smythe, of Acton Burnal Park, Mr. Smythe 

 Owen, of Candover Hall, and Mr. Lloyd, of Aston 

 Hall, Salop, better known as " the Shropshire 

 hounds;" and that of Mr. Wicksted, whose kennel 



