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enacted witli a well turned -out establishment;, and a 

 pack fit for the Shires. How the three days are made 

 up is a maiwel — scarcely to be explained. One day is 

 home : the other two are border days — or^ failing 

 ground or foxes, have to be contrived somehow, and 

 somewhere among the collieries — or the moors. Mon- 

 day, Wednesday, and Friday are the days chosen. 



The map should be before you if you would learn 

 how little^ and which part, of the country is available 

 for foxhunting. You will see a large area credited to 

 the Earl ; but for all practical purposes you may run 

 a pair of scissors up its centre — from Chesterfield by 

 Sheffield up to Barnsley and the Badsworth_, following 

 a line of railway all the way. You will thus cut off 

 the western moors and many of the chief nests of 

 coalpits. The southernmost loop, too, between 

 Chesterfield and Sheffield, can do little in the interest 

 of foxhunting — collieries usurping the greater part of 

 its extent, and leaving only room for a single meet, 

 namely, Gleedless ToUbar, from whence they draw 

 Mr. Bagshaw's woods at '' The Oaks,-'' where they 

 generally find a wild moorland fox, but failing which 

 they draw Hanging Lea, a large gorse covert about 

 18 acres, recently planted by Lord Fitzwilliam. 

 Quite outside this district and on the edge of the 

 moors is a meet at Norton, with two or three good 

 woods of Mr. Cammell in the neighbourhood. Such 

 an advertisement is invariably a signal for a popular 

 holiday from Sheffield ; and thousands who ought to 

 be at work are footing it with hounds that day. The 

 other loop (for the whole district is a patchwork of 

 pieces enclosed by subdividing- railways), having 



