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being more convenient during ttie season tlian his 

 place at Ince. The northern,, or Knutsford, side of 

 his country, again, is of a wilder — and so to speak 

 more natural — description than the south. There is, 

 perhaps, more plough in it, but this rides firm and 

 well ; foxes have much increased in numbers of late 

 years, and are stout and wild. Between Knutsford 

 and Warrington, however, are large tracts of ground 

 devoted to potato growing ; and the presence of wire 

 proclaims that foxhunting is not the first object of 

 the native mind. Otherwise this is a fine district, 

 with good coverts in its midst. Many large park- 

 properties — or, as they term them in Ireland, 

 " demesnes " — mark all the upper portion of the 

 country, and the plantations and woods round these 

 constitute the chief coverts. Among- such is Arley 

 Hall, the residence of the Cheshire poet of sport and 

 kindly-fellowship, Mr. Egevton Warburton — now alas, 

 stoneblind, but still keenly anxious as ever for the 

 welfare of the Hunt, and delighted to hear of their 

 daily doings. 



Mr. Corbet^s chief meets and coverts are much 

 as follows (Tuesday and Friday being his days of 

 hunting). It may be said that two Tuesdays out of 

 every three he meets at Wrenbury, not far from which 

 is the famous Baddeley Gorse (Mr. Wickstead's). 

 One season especially he had a wonderful succession 

 of fine gallops from here, running" the same old fox 

 many times across a superb country up to the Peck- 

 forton Hills, some eight miles away. Wrenbury- 

 Mosses, The Yeld Covert, Hall o' Coole (Mr. Tom- 

 kinson's). Court's Gorse, and Broomhall are all good 



