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gorse coverts and plantations, and tlie wood o£ 

 Flodden Hill, the property of the Marchioness of 

 Waterford. Mindrum is another meet, from which 

 the covert of that name is drawn, and afterwards 

 perhaps the gorses of Downham, Pawston, and 

 Kilham. 



Saturday scatters itself over a very wide area to the 

 west of the Kennels. Hounds may be taken by train 

 to Hawick, and thence reach a considerable tract of 

 country on the banks of the Teviot and the Borth- 

 wdck. Here they get into a hilly grass district 

 abounding in stone walls, the coverts being chiefly 

 plantation. Minto, nearer home, is a leading meet, 

 as also is Drinkstone. The Kennels, St. BoswelFs, is 

 generally named with a view to Long Newton Forest, 

 or for the Eildon Hills, whose three peaks rear their 

 heads as a landmark visible over the whole of the Duke's 

 country. Far away, again is The Haining, near the 

 town of Selkirk, where there is also much hilly moor- 

 land. Round his Grace's residence at Bowhill, too, 

 are hills covered with coarse grass. And, as we get 

 higher into Selkirk we come upon more mountainous 

 ground, fit for fox-hunting only when spring has 

 driven it from elsewhere. 



The occasional Friday, when given to the Gala 

 water, takes us into a wild, often precipitous, country, 

 where sheep find a short herbage and the fox hunter 

 climbs as best he may — his progress constantly stayed 

 by stone walls whose height is proportionate to the 

 number of stones to be cleared off, rather than to the 

 requirements of fence-making. The other Fridays 

 when made use of, lead to the neutral corner of Nor- 



