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back at a telling pace to Tliurleston, and 

 within one field of Bagshaw's Gorse to 

 Bunker's Hill, across the brook for Grand- 

 borough, and on to Shuckborough, through 

 Calcot Spinney, back nearly to the brook under 

 Bunker's Hill, where the hounds ran into him 

 in the presence, out of a very large field, of 

 not more than half a score. The time, from 

 Causton Spinney to the " Who-hoop," one 

 hour and ten minutes. 



During the season of 1861 and '62, Mr. 

 Baker's health which had never recovered the 

 effects of bronchitis, precluded him from 

 accompanying his hounds regularly in the 

 field, though his indomitable pluck, love of 

 hunting, and ardent desire to show sport, 

 prompted him too frequently to make the 

 attempt. He was, indeed, too regardless of 

 himself; thus, his medical attendants found it 

 imperatively necessary to advise him to seek 

 a warmer climate in the West of England, 

 and after Christmas he was reluctantly 

 induced to leave his hounds and submit to 

 become a temporary exile at Penzance, hoping 

 that his health would return. But unhappily it 

 was a vain hope, and at the end of the season 

 he resigned the mastership, and his hounds 



