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the most " truly rural " districts tliere are simple 

 swish hedges, easy to get over or through — with 

 neither bank nor ditch to render them terrible. 



The Wentworth country is all strong and deep clay, 

 The East is a lighter soil ; and a trip into Grove 

 territory probably puts you on a surface approaching 

 to red sand till you reach the fen land beyond the 

 borrowed ground below Doncaster. And the whole 

 is flat, until the moorlands are touched on the west 

 and south. 



With a country so difficult and confined, Lord Fitz- 

 william yet keeps about fifty couple of hounds in 

 kennel, and, as already written, brings them out three 

 days a week. Wentworth and the home - coverts 

 supply one day ; and the eastern border has to bear 

 the brunt of the other two, aided by occasional trips 

 among the collieries and on to the moorlands. There 

 are plenty of nice coverts round Wentworth, and, 

 needless to add, plenty of foxes; close by, too, is 

 another part of the family property, viz., Hesley Park 

 and Tankersley Old Hall — the latter having been, a 

 hundred years ago, a very large Park, but now 

 altogether cut up. From here they may occasionally 

 run over the railway, beyond Westwood Station and 

 in among the collieries ; but this is neither very likely 

 nor desirable. 



Turning to the east of the country, we find Ulley 

 Gorse, just south of Rotherham, and close to Treeton. 

 Wood, offering as good a chance of a run as anything 

 in the Hunt. It belongs to Mr. F. Foljambe, and 

 is, naturally, a safe find. Wickersley Gorse is another 

 nice covert, and for this the meet is Wickersley Toll 



