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lots of foxeSj and stout ones. From Bredhurst are 

 big woods still, separated one from another only by a 

 few fields. At Debtling we get again to smaller 

 coverts and the edge of the grass. From Eainbam 

 (on the main line of the L. C. & D. Ry.) tbey draw 

 Rainbam Park, wbicb generally holds a good fox. 

 From Bobbing Court (where lives Mr. Richard Knight, 

 a good friend to the Hunt) they have Wardwell and 

 Calves Hole, where some litters of foxes are bred 

 every spring. Now and again a trip is made into the 

 Marshes by the sea : and Tong Mill, opposite the Isle 

 of Sheppey is usually named. Blacketts is the chief 

 draw ; but the search is more often for an outlying 

 fox. From this region they had an extraordinary 

 long run two years ago, following a gallant fox right 

 across the breadth of their country to Staplehurst (a 

 point of between fifteen and sixteen miles), where — 

 scent having been cold all the way — he fairly beat 

 them. 



The hounds nearly always sleep out the night 

 before the Saturday meets, lying at the Bell at Bred- 

 hurst, where rough Kennels have been provided. 



