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can keep them untrampled ; the latter need never look 

 wide afield with uplifted cap for extraneous help, or 

 hope to make briUiant cast to a forrard signal. The 

 practicability of the fences, and the galloping grass, 

 may induce men to a virtue of valour that is almost 

 exuberance ; but it is seldom that hounds cannot almost 

 hold their own — and he is a notable demon that can 

 over-ride them every day in the week. 



The line of railway from Crewe to Chester, or rather 

 that part of it which reaches from Crewe to Beeston, 

 cuts off the corner which now constitutes the South 

 Cheshire, and which Mr. Corbet hunts on Tuesdays 

 and Fridays — leaving the remaining days for The 

 Cheshire proper. For twelve years previous to the 

 new arrangement he lived near the Kennels in Dela- 

 mere Forest ; hunted the whole country ; and was 

 accustomed to bring hounds by special train once a 

 week to Wrenbury. Some twenty or thirty years ago 

 there were supplementary kennels at the latter place ; 

 and hounds were taken there over night. A special 

 train still runs every Tuesday from Crewe to Wren- 

 bury (in conjunction with the ordinary trains from 

 Liverpool and Chester, from Manchester and Warring- 

 ton), and waits to pick up for the return journey. 

 Thus all Cheshire, and others from the great cities, 

 can join Mr. Corbet on a Tuesday ; and very many 

 avail themselves of the chance — tea at Wrenbury 

 before re-embarkation being a recognised part and 

 ceremony of the day. Mr. Corbet^s present little 

 country is allowedly the pick of all Cheshire — better 

 even than the Chester Vale — 'for there is scarcely an 

 acre of bad ground in it ; and the whole rides firm and 



