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cart rounds and drive off to where a litter of cubs is 

 laid up — that he may spend an hour or two in watchinsf 

 their gambols. Mr. Joseph Page (father of John 

 Page, the steeplechase jockey) used to find the 

 servant^s horses for these Mondays. Now^ we believe, 

 it is entrusted to Mr. Robert Hunt, of Edgbaston. A 

 very fair horse is required — and, it should be added, 

 has generally been forthcoming. For, though most 

 of this part of the country is plain sailing, it often 

 happens that you have to jump on and off a high bank. 

 The inclosures are small, and the fences accordingly 

 come quick and frequent. The hounds are brought, 

 as a rule, to Solihull or Knowle stations, and some of 

 the more frequent meets are there, or at the Clock at 

 Bickenhill, Elmdon, Castle Bromwich, Hall Green, the 

 Lion Portway, Hockley House, Inkford, Brook, and 

 Umberslade. Tanworth, too, may almost be included 

 in the Birmingham country. The coverts are not 

 large but numerous. EarFs Wood, Forshaw Park, 

 and Hampton Coppice are among the most important. 

 At the last-named place many a good fox has been 

 found ; and the same may be said of Coleshill Pool. 

 The smaller coverts round Knowle and Solihull also 

 show quite their share of sport. 



The Tuesday country embraces a great deal of wood, 

 but there are some nice little strips of land between 

 Coventry and Kenilworth. To the eastward we get 

 into the forest of Arden, and the landscape is rather 

 picturesque than sporting. 



Tile Hill is one of the meets nearest to Coventry — 

 for Tile Hill Wood and coverts, and sometimes on to 

 the Master's covert at Frogmore. Stoneleigh is, of 



