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who hunt with the pack in question. Over the greater 

 part of the country the field in attendance seldom 

 musters more than fifty or sixty ; and it is only on the 

 Cheltenham side that anything like numbers put in an 

 appearance. No town of any note comes within the 

 borders ; and both the country and the Hunt are 

 unusually small. 



The three days of hunting are generally arranged 

 as follows — Tuesday is for the half of the country 

 nearer to Cheltenham, Saturday for the neutral district 

 and the r^st of that side, leaving Thursday to be named 

 where most convenient. Among the Tuesday meets 

 are Guiting Wood, which may lead to a run in any 

 direction, whether over Heythrop, Cotswold or North 

 Cotswold ground : Ford Village also for Gruiting Wood 

 or Hailes : Taddington, a very old and favourite fixture 

 on the hill, generally with a view to drawing Litcomb . 

 (Mr. Cook and his father before him have always been 

 true fox preservers, and friends of successive Masters. 

 The Earl Fitzhardinge was always in the habit of going 

 there overnight for meets on that side; and Lord 

 Coventry, too, met with staunch and constant assist- 

 ance.) Not far from Taddington is the meet of The 

 Slate Quarries in the best of the hill-and-wall country. 

 It has a nice gorse covert, well looked after by Mr. Hyatt 

 of Snowshill. Kineton Thorns is another good fixture 

 between Gruiting and Sezincot ; and Sezincot Warren 

 (the property of the young Sir C. Rushout), close to 

 Bourton Wood and the Heythrop boundary, is quite 

 one of the strongholds of the Hunt. This last may b e 

 a Tuesday or a Saturday meet. For the Broadway 

 neighbourhood either the Kennels, or the residence of 



