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more to a new stick covert made by those 

 warm supporters of Imntiiig, Mr. Ruck, of 

 Castle Hill, and Mr. John Archer, of Lush 

 Hill, adjoining a small natural covert, which 

 was considered not of sufficient size to hold 

 foxes. Here the wild animal was quickly on 

 his legs, and as quickly followed by the hounds 

 to the Marston Lane, where there was a 

 momentary check; speedily rectified, the 

 hounds went at a good pace to the Maisey 

 Hampton Brook, to Mr. Bee's of Broadmore 

 Hill, leaving Furzey Hill to the right, where 

 the fox was chased by a sheepdog — a forward 

 cast, however, recovered the line in the Kemps- 

 ford Road, from thence to the Fairford Road, 

 and across it, pointing for Quenington 

 Coneygre, but it was up wind, which the fox 

 not approving of, he returned over the foiled 

 ground and was lost ; scent very indifferent. 

 Several other coverts were drawn blank, but 

 the greater portion of the field having left, 

 Mr. Croome, in consideration of a coursing 

 club who were to meet on the following day, 

 desisted from drawing nearer to the scene of 

 their operations, and took the hounds home. 



At Badminton there are some very ancient 

 paintings by Wootton, containing portraits 



