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hunting-field are of the highest order, and 

 ftir and fast must hounds run if, when riding 

 Brilliant or Bluecap, they can gain an 

 advantage. And here, again, the tenantry 

 and gentlemen of the hunt are offering a suit- 

 able mark of respect ; having obtained per- 

 mission from the Earl of Yarborough to 

 present the Countess of Yarborough with an 

 equestrian portrait of herself, in testimony of 

 her many virtues. 



With such imperative claims on the cour- 

 teous co-operation of every person interested 

 in the welfare of the county, it is not more 

 than moral and social rectitude demands that 

 every support should be rendered to enable 

 Lord Yarborough to carry out his wishes ; 

 but more emphatically still, that any person 

 should exist so heartless as to frustrate his 

 Lordship's efforts, or in the least degree to 

 annoy him, would be perfectly inconceivable. 



The season of 1862 and '63 commenced 

 under the auspices of a new huntsman, 

 Phillip Tocock, whose initiations in the 

 mysteries of the noble science commenced 

 upwards of twenty years since in the Vine 

 country, at the time when Mr. Fellowes was 

 the master ; he then had two years' probation 



