i62 GOOD SPORT 



Wilts^ and then in the same capacity to the 

 Bedale, a good school for huntsmen. 



With the spring of the year and longer hours 

 of daylight, many masters like a change of scene, 

 visiting a neighbour's country with their hounds, 

 gaining new experiences. To conclude the Cottes- 

 more season 1908-9, Lord Lonsdale accepted an 

 invitation, taking his private pack, composed of 

 purchases from the North Cheshire and Mr. W. M. 

 Wroughton, to have a hunt in the Clumber coverts, 

 the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle 

 in the Grove country. 



A good story is told of the Southwold hunted by 

 Mr. E. P. Rawnsley, a Lincolnshire pack which 

 shows the best of sport, going in April 1909 for 

 a day in the Pytchley country. A very good hunt 

 resulted, for they ran over the borders of the 

 Pytchley to a covert in the Grafton country. Mr. 

 Charles McNeill, happening to be hunting the Grafton 

 pack in the district, saw the strange whipper-in 

 stationed by the covert, and sent his servant to ask 

 who he was. " Where have you come from ? " 

 asked the Grafton whipper-in. " Fra Lincasheere ! " 

 rephed the Southwold whipper-in, airing the dialect 

 of his county. " How far is that ? " asked the 

 other, fairly astonished. " About a eight or nine 

 mile point," replied the Lincolnshire man, who had 

 no idea of the geography of the county he was in. 

 Back went the Grafton official to report that the 

 stranger said he had come '* an eighty-nine mile 

 point from Lincolnshire." 



