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shire. Hemswortli Station is a very favourite meet ; 

 and used always to be on a Saturday, but a change of 

 days is said to be in contemplation. From this fixture 

 Hagg Wood (Mr. C. Fitzwilliam^s), Sir Lionel's Gorse, 

 or the Shafton G-orses (Lord Galway's) may be drawn. 

 Other meets are Shafton Two Gates, Ackworth Moor 

 Tops, Ringstone Hill, &c., and other coverts are 

 Chevet (Sir Lionel Pilkington's), Hoar Park, Nostell 

 (Mr. R. Winn's), Frystone (Lord Houghton's), 

 Badsworth (Mr. R. H. Jones'), Burnt Wood (Mr. 

 Dymond's), New Park Spring (Mr. Foljambe's), 

 Hootan Wood (Mr. Warde Aldam's), and Stapleton 

 (Mrs. Barton's). 



The fourth section of the country is the west, which 

 is hilly and thickly wooded, and owns to a fair pro- 

 portion of grass. It is very necessary here to be 

 mounted on a horse that will jump a stone wall, which 

 is a frequent fence in the neighbourhood. And espe- 

 cially is this the case should a fox take you straight 

 for the moors, over the wild open country intervening. 

 In January, 1880, a notable instance of such a run was 

 sketched in The Field. On the occasion alluded to 

 they ran a ten-mile point from Haigh Wood, hounds 

 going on with their fox till at the end of three hours 

 they were lost in the darkness, thirty miles from home. 

 This western district is now thickly populated by 

 colliers — a keen breed of sportsmen, or, as they term 

 themselves, '' pure hunters " — who will often turn out 

 to run for miles with hounds. The principal western 

 meets are Cawthorne, Woolley Edge, Darton, and 

 Haigh Station ; and these are usually on a Monday. 

 The chief coverts are Bretton (Mr. W. B. Beaumont's), 



