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and reojards with indio-nation. The hunts- 

 man did not escape censure, but fortunately 

 his reputation is too firmly established to be 

 impaired or shaken by the paltry effusions of 

 a writer who palpably contradicted himself, 

 and manifested unmistakable proofs of being 

 perfectly unacquainted with subjects apper- 

 taining to the " noble science." 



Mr. Sitwell entered the M.F.H. list in 

 1854, and had temporary kennels at Buck- 

 nail, but that place being at one end of the 

 country, and consequently inconvenient, new 

 ones have been erected on the Downton 

 Castle estate, about four or five miles from 

 Ludlow, on the right of the Knighton road. 

 They were well suited to the number of 

 hounds required to be kept, and are very 

 sound and healthy. This suggests a few 

 remarks on kennel lameness, which may be 

 worthy of notice. Mr. Stubbs's kennels, 

 which were within a stone's throw of Mr. 

 Sitwell's, were very confined and apparently 

 inadequate, but if there were any kennels 

 sounder than others I should say it was those. 

 I have known many hounds so grievously 

 afflicted with kennel lameness as to be totally 

 unable to work drafted from other packs and 



