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Wednesday, too_, is mostly in a cultivated district. 

 Bearwood Lodge is fixed for the Bearwood coverts 

 and Fox Hill Gorse. Barkham Combes,, joining 

 Bearwood, is another good place for foxes — and the 

 names of Messrs. Walter and Simonds ought to be 

 recorded as hearty friends to the Hunt. From the 

 meet of The Greyhound at Finchhampstead, hounds 

 go to The Fleet and Farley Hill; and sometimes the 

 Bound Oak, Farley Hill, is named, for Sir C. RusselFs 

 coverts at Swallowfield Place. Luckley Park is for 

 the Luckley Coverts and Finchhampstead Ridges. 



Friday runs sometimes on rough, sometimes on 

 smoother lines. Greywell Hill and Andwell Mill are 

 very favourite meets for the same stretch of covert 

 — the two being at opposite ends of a woodland some 

 two or three miles in length. For au afternoon draw 

 a move is more frequently made to Hods and Bells (a 

 great covert). Dogmersfield Park (Sir H. Mildmay's) 

 has various good resting-places for foxes, the best 

 being Coxmoor. From Clere Park they draw Old 

 Park Gorse, and back by Bourley Bottom, under 

 the Long Valley. These coverts are Government 

 property; and under this proprietorship cubs are 

 yearly bred in security. Beacon Hill on the cards is 

 for the same draws, with Ewshot Wood on the southern 

 border of Mr. Garth^s dominion. But Tilney Hall on 

 the west is for a better country, enclosed with bank 

 and ditch; and has a good covert in Blackwood, the 

 property of Mr. Harris. Sherfield Green has some 

 coverts in its neighbourhood, from which hounds are 

 likely to work back in the course of the day by 

 Greywell. 



