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minutes at fastest, with no water but many good 

 doubles on tbe way. In the other direction they may 

 run out to Aston Abbots,, another fine gorse near 

 Leighton — for which the meet is at Mr. Straw^s place 

 or at Wingrave Cross Roads. Mentmore is a beautiful 

 meet, with the shrubberies to draw and frequently a 

 fox at home; while near by is Baron Rothschild's 

 new gorse at Puttenham, on the edge of the country, 

 and with the Rousham Brook running just below it. 

 By the way, it may here be noted that Mr. Stanford 

 should have shown Puttenham as within the Whaddon 

 Chase boundaries : and also that the Oakley have 

 retained that strip of their country by Woburn, which 

 they had lent to Mr. Selby-Lowndes. At Ascot Mr. 

 Leopold Rothschild has planted a new covert. On 

 the other side we come to the meet of Creslow Great 

 Ground, with small patches of covert near ; and 

 Hardwicke (the rendezvous being Mr. Casenove's 

 place. The Lilies), whence they have little to draw 

 but thick hedgerows — no strong covert existing 

 between here and Christmas Gorse. For Mr. Monk^s 

 Gorse they meet at his house ; and thence you may 

 likely enough find yourself in the Addington coverts 

 — possibly in the Addington Brook. 



The three chief woods still remaining to mark The 

 Chase itself are College Wood, Oak Hill, and the 

 Thrift : all of which are a thorough home for foxes — 

 the meets being Nash, Whaddon and Furze-in-the- 

 Field. Outside these we find Saldon Wood from 

 Saldon Windmill, which may also take you into the 

 Vale — Saldon down to Aylesbury Town being' about 

 the extent of the Vale hunted by these hounds. 



