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south. He was naturally very much annoyed, 

 as nothing disturbs a Whin covert more than 

 this. It seems to make the foxes suspicious, 

 the wind is let into their previously snug 

 quarters ; also perhaps, as the rides would 

 facilitate shooting, the man with a gun is more 

 often in the covert. 



One day in October, Mr. Booth very 

 materially assisted his hounds. 



They were at the New Whin, Baldersby, 

 which was very thick, and although there 

 were two or three foxes in it, neither 

 they or the hounds could make much head- 

 way, so thick was the undergrowth. After 

 about an hour and a half's work, he saw a 

 cub which looked as if it had had about 

 enough, so he got off his horse and caught 

 it ; holloaed his hounds to him, and killed it. 



He had prickly recollections of this day 

 the following season, when he happened to be 

 wearing the same pair of Bedford cord 

 breeches again. 



While trudging about the covert on foot 

 they had got well studded with soft gorse 

 pricks. These, although not felt at the time, 

 had, with a summer's rest, dried and hard- 

 ened, and in this the following year, it was 

 like sitting on the ' ' business end of many 

 tin tacks.'' 



Wire is supposed to be a somewhat modem 

 curse, but in November of this year, Mr. 

 Booth notes that Mr. S. Powell got a bad 

 fall over some, near Reedholmes covert. 



December the 18th seems to have been 



