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that which the wind on elevated and exposed 

 situations occasioned. On the wind subsiding, 

 scent became wonderfully good. Such mild 

 weatlier has scarcely ever been known in the 

 month of February. 



On the day I paid my respects to these 

 hounds at Manthorp, the morning was very 

 far from inviting, but the storms abated, 

 and the wind became somewhat less trouble- 

 some. When the hounds were drawing 

 Careby AVood it was intimated that a fox 

 was in the habit of frequenting a hedge 

 row near at hand, and, with excellent dis- 

 crimination. Sir John Trollope sent a mes- 

 senger to present his card rather than take 

 the hounds to the spot and incur the wildness 

 and confusion inseparable with such a course 

 of proceeding. The mission was successful, 

 and the fox having notice to arouse from his 

 resting-place, skirted the covert which had 

 just been drawn, and the hounds settling well 

 to their work carried the line with perfect 

 steadiness and truth to Witham Wood, and 

 on to that beautiful domain, Grimsthorpe 

 Park, where there is a greater proportion of 

 grass than in general prevails, for the indus- 

 trious handicraft of ao-riculture has, within a 



