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good day from Shuckborough, which lies at 

 one extremity of the country, and another from 

 Weston Park at the other extremity. They 

 had, likewise, a capital fifty minutes when 

 they met at Brailes. A very bad scent in 

 Wychford Wood led to the conclusion that 

 there would be no sport, so coffee-housing 

 and smoking to wile away the time, bringing 

 forth the usual accompaniment of indifference 

 as to the working and whereabouts of the 

 pack, enabled them to get away with a fox, 

 which broke covert unknown to the great 

 majority of the field. Major Shirley, how- 

 ever, who is not usually to be slipt when 

 business can be transacted, got away with 

 the hounds, as did also the under whipper-in 

 and several others, but the Major cut them 

 all down one by one, having all the glory 

 to himself, till a lucky turn allowed some of 

 the field to fall in with the pack. Break- 

 ing in the direction of Long Compton, the 

 line bore to the left, leaving Rollwright on 

 the right, to Hook Norton, where the fox 

 got among some gardens, and taking advan- 

 tage of a wood pile, scaled a wall, over 

 which the hounds had to be assisted. Mr. 

 North and the huntsman, who did not 



