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good covert is found at Packwood. A rough country 

 for riding ; but not altogether difficult to cross^ is this : 

 and hounds do well in it. 



The Thursday meets are not numerous ; but point 

 to an area that we have already designated as well- 

 nigh perfect. Rugby Station or Hillmorfcon generally 

 mean the famous Hillmorton Gorse. But to get to 

 fresh ground in the afternoon calls for a long jog — for 

 Mr. Chirnside^s little gorse near Clifton is altogether 

 too small, and the new covert to break the journey 

 to Bilton Grange is not yet completed. Bilton Grange 

 is also a meet, and often has foxes. Leicester's Piece 

 is the next covert (of inconsiderable size). Dunchurch 

 is generally named for Bunker's Hill — a beautifully 

 situated covert, looking over the lovely green vale to 

 Shuckburgh, but which has not done its duty of late 

 years. Cawston takes us on into a different country, 

 where the land is plough, the hedges straggling, 

 and the ditches wide — and so we merge again into 

 the big woodlands beyond Stretton. 



