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very long slip^ and Hopbine led Reveller, with five to 

 four on him, two lengths to his hare. The dog got 

 the second turn, and then the bitch took possession, 

 and drove her hare to Albright Lea plantation and 

 won. 



The meeting dwindled away after The Squire and 

 Mr. Burton died, but Mrs. Cartwright renewed it in 

 1864. It was there that she laid the seeds of the ill- 

 ness which killed her, and as she was too ill to go to 

 Meg's Waterloo Cup, it was there that her active 

 coursing life ended. A more kindly and energetic 

 woman never breathed. Her stakes were never ad- 

 vertised, and yet she always filled them. Her meet- 

 ings were Longford, Sundorne, Vale of Clwyd (where 

 Sea Pink and Sea Foam came out and won), Talacre, 

 Abergele, with its fine Radland Marshes, and Sud- 

 bury, with its one-hundred-acre Great Hayes, where, 

 as she used to tell with such pride, Ciologa went 

 through a thirty-two dog stake, and had only one 

 point made against her by Klaphonia. She thought 

 that after that performance of Canaradzo's sister she 

 must really give up her idol Riot in her favour. 

 Oddly enough she hated a large greyhound, and yet 

 her house pet was a 6slbs. one, by Beacon from 

 Avalanche. He was given to her by Mr. Ainsworth, 

 and had once the honour of beating Sea Rock in a 

 bye at Abergele. She never ran him in- public, but 

 yet she never left him at home ; and her photograph 

 was taken with him in her hand. 



" In memory of Robert Luther of Acton, who died 

 Sept. Jth, 1862," was the inscription on a funeral 

 card, which was received with sorrow by every fox- 

 hunter in the United Hunt. " Robert " was es- 

 sentially a character, a tall, grey-headed elder, sixty- 

 two, and fifteen stone, and Earl Powis had no farmer 

 of whom he felt more proud. He held a thousand 

 acres under his lordship at Acton, three miles from 

 Bishop's Castle, and was nearly as good a judge of 



