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foxes from dewberries liave declined this line. 

 Efforts, however, are being made to re-establisli tlie 

 reputation of the other two coverts; and so to 

 bring this, the best piece of the country, again into 

 favour. 



The London and North- Western commands nearly 

 the whole of the country, and a man wishing to join 

 the O.B.H. cannot do better than keep his horses at 

 Watford or Tring, at both of which places he will find 

 the best of loose boxes at his call. At Watford he 

 will get both the O.B.H. and the Hertfordshire; while 

 at Tring he will have these two packs, with Mr. 

 Selby Lowndes^ pack and the Barents Staghounds 

 besides. Near Watford are the neutral coverts of 

 Newberries and Bricket ; and the Hertfordshire also 

 claim the right of drawing Scratch Wood. New- 

 berries is still counted as offering as good a chance of 

 a run as anything in the hunt ; for, if a fox from it 

 will only choose his direction aright, he must give a 

 pretty gallop. (They have been known to kill a fox 

 from here in the middle of Watford.) Bricket Wood 

 is an immense place, pretty sure find, but difficult 

 to get away from, and the rides are of deep clay. But 

 for all this it is a covert of a great value to the hunt. 

 Other meets near Watford (which we may consider 

 as on the whole the most convenient base for the 

 O.B.H., and which is only half an hour from Euston- 

 square Station) are Hamper Mill, Hunton Bridge 

 (for Mr. Jones Lloyd^s coverts at Langley Bury), 

 Croxley Green, Chenies (for Lord Chesham^s good 

 coverts), Cassiobury (for Lord Essex''s), Grove Park 

 (a pretty meet for Lord Clarendon^s), Moor Park (for 



