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to its avowed allowance — huuting Monday^ Thursday 

 and Saturday in one week, Tuesday and Friday the 

 next. But for the greater part of the season Friday 

 is devel oped into a Thursday and a Saturday ; and 

 three days a week is the rule. 



For the Monday (Tuesday in alternate weeks) they 

 retain the centre of their territory ; of which their 

 chief meets and coverts are as follows — 



Otterden is fixed for Mr. Wheeler^s good coverts — 

 natural woods, but not of the great size so frequent 

 in the county, though stored with foxes beyond the 

 average. The Black Post, Hollingbourn is also for 

 some small woods ; and from here you get on the grass 

 of the hills, of which most is seen on the initial day 

 of the week. Rodmersham, and Torry Hill (Mr. 

 Leigh Pemberton^s) are for Kingsdown Wood. 

 Tunstall (Mr. G. Webb's) and Woodstock Park lead 

 to Mr. Twopenny's coverts, where there are always 

 litters of cubs, and Cromer's Wood is one of the most 

 certain finds in the Hunt. Linsted Village has little 

 coverts near it; Doddington is another common 

 fixture ; but Leeds Castle (seat of the late Mr. Wick- 

 ham Martin, who was a member for the county and a 

 good supporter of foxhunting) is usually advertised 

 for Kings Wood and various plantations in the neigh- 

 bourhood. And below this, as above-mentioned, 

 hounds are seldom taken — on account of wet ground 

 and fruit gardens. From the Squirrels, Stockbury 

 they draw Long Tun (a good place for foxes) and get 

 again on the top of the hills and to the better country. 

 Sharsted Court may be on the cards for either Monday 

 or Thursday. It is the residence of Mr. Faunce De 



