43 o Saddle and Sirloin. 



and Walker's best thing was from there nearly to 

 Bryn-y-pys, over Worthenbury Meadows, down to 

 Bangor, and across its steeple-chase ground, when 

 they changed foxes and got beat. It was fifty 

 minutes without a check, and grass nearly all the 

 way ; and only seven saw the finish. The Broxton 

 hills and the Peckforton hills are neutral, and require 

 routing perpetually. At Larges Gorse they only find 

 old foxes. Sir Watkin gets to the hills once a fort- 

 night, if he can, and likes to sink the vale for the 

 Cholmondeley country. There have been many good 

 runs from Peel's Gorse, and also from Captain 

 Glutton's Gorse and Burton's Wood, but the foxes are 

 generally bred on the hills. Some rare runs have also 

 been known from Maesten with Cholmondeley and 

 Garden foxes. The Cheshire men meet Sir Watkin 

 principally on the Monday, and Mr. John Coupland 

 and the Messrs. Behrens are their standard-bearers. 



On Tuesday, it is the turn for the Shropshire or 

 Baschurch country, which has much more plough, and 

 always requires a great deal of wet to carry a scent. 

 Hopton Gorse and Boreatton are favourite meets, and 

 Woodhouse or Aston is generally drawn from Rednal 

 Station. The foxes are small and lengthy, and the 

 enclosures large. Petton Gorse, which has some fine 

 woodland foxes, is a great draw from Baschurch 

 Station, and they sometimes go with a good fox 

 ten or eleven miles through Oteley Park to the 

 Duke's woods. 



On Thursday, they are generally in the Oteley 

 Park country, and have some rare finds at George's or 

 the Duke's, or Lee's woods, but like the Baschurch 

 country it requires plenty of rain. 



On Saturday, it is the turn for Sutton Green 

 Gorse, in the Gresford country, Marchwiel Gorse, 

 Cloverley, Shavington Park, and Styche, from which 

 they run to Combermere, that alma mater of fox 

 cubs, and often into the North Staffordshire country. 



