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house has been built for Squires, who concluded a 

 fresh engagement, at a considerably increased salary, 

 for three seasons, at the end of his first — no slight 

 testimony to his talent and popularity with the 

 hunt. The hounds come to Houston on May 4th, 

 and stop till September 19th ; then they go to Drum- 

 pellier, the master^s seat, for five weeks ; then back 

 to Houston till the middle of February, and then to 

 Lanarkshire, to wind up. " November 1st, — 

 The Kennels" opens the ssason either in Mr. 

 Spiers^s woods or Barrachan Wood and Gorse, the 

 property of Miss Fleming, one of the strictest pre- 

 servers in the Hunt. The half-dozen horses are all 

 Irish, and a very useful lot they seemed. White- 

 nose is Squires^ Tuesday horse ; and a white nose 

 poked over a loose-box to greet him, told that 

 Return had been confederate with him on many a 

 hard-fought Saturday. 



