272 THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS. 



" Salnrdmj, March SiJi, 1902. Standon. — Drew the osier-bed, Mr. Gcarde's 

 covert, Brocton Wood, Sugiiall, and Charnes blank. Found in the Green Lane 

 Coppice. A heavy vixen. Stopped the liounds. Found in the Hicks Coppice. 

 Had a very good gallop by Podmore, Bromley Hall, Broughton, through Bishop's 

 Wood into Burnt Woods, where no doubt he got to ground. Found three foxes 

 on Ashley Heath. Had a very fast gallop through the Forty Acres by Willough- 

 bridge. Cow Leasows, Ashley Heath, and stopped the hounds going into Burnt 

 Wood. A good day. A good scent, and if we had found early in the morning, 

 no doubt we should have had a clinking day. Hounds ran fast from Bromley, 

 also from Ashley in the afternoon. 



" Monday^ March lOth. Madehy. — Found in Wrinehills. After ringing 

 about the wood a little, he went away at a good pace, through Beeches Wood, by 

 Barr Hill, the Bitterns, Kadwood, Aston Clitf, to the Willoughbridge. Stopped 

 hounds going towards the Cow Leasows. Found in Finson's Hay Gorse. Had 

 another capital gallop by Bridgemere, Shaw Rough, nearly to Betley Road 

 Station ; then turned to Wrinehill Woods, where hounds got divided. Got them 

 together again, and drew the Bitterns blank. This was a very good day's 

 sport. Hounds ran very fast all day. One of the best scenting days of the 

 season. 



" Saturday, March \hth. The Oladdings. — Found a nice show of foxes in 

 the Gladdings. Owing to the wind could not do much. Found in Craddock's 

 Moss. Had a hunt over the Coal Pits to Walton Wood, and beat us. Found in 

 Mill Dale. Had a very good run by the Dunvilles, through Foxley Drumble and 

 Gorse, by Alsager Wood, through Linley Wood, by the Hall, and killed at Butt 

 Lane in a pig-sty. This was fast from find to finish. A very windy day. 

 Found plenty of foxes, and hounds had a hard day. The run from Mill Dale was 

 good all the way. When we killed our fox at Butt Lane, which is in a thickly 

 populated district, and owing to a football match near to, we had over a hundred 

 people to see the hounds break up the fox. 



" Monday, March \lth. Norton-in- Hales. — Drew Betton Moss and the 

 Glades blank. Found in Golling's Rough. Had a very good run by Hankin's 

 Hay, College Field Drumble, Pewit Hall, Buerton village, by Three Brooks, 

 and ran to ground near Buerton. Dug the fox out dead. Found in College 

 Field Drumble. Had another good run by Three Brooks, Mill Hay, Woore Hall, 

 over the Racecourse to Gravenhunger, over the North Staffordshire Railway, 

 near Pipe Gate Station, on to Aston Cliffe, and ran to ground at Sidway. A 

 very good run. A very nice day, and one of the best days this season. The 

 first run was a very nice hunting run, with a useful holding scent. The last gallop 

 hounds never checked only slightly from find to finish. A real good day's 

 sport. 



" Monday, March 2Uh. Wyhunhury. — Found on the Moss. Had a very 

 nice hunt in a storm, by Blakenhall, over the London and North- Western Rail- 

 way line at the Den Farm, recrossed at Betley Road Station, on to Lea Park, to 

 ground. Drew Chapel Wood blank. Found in Admiral's Gorse. Did nothing much 

 owing to rain and sleet. Found in Harrow's Wood. Had a slow hunt, and ran 

 him to ground near Buerton. A very stormy day and cold. Had rain, snow, and 

 sleet all day, and a rough ride home, facing us all the way — thirteen miles. 

 Very few stayed to the finish. Our first fox gave us a nice gallop." 



The Manchester Courier of March 25th contains the 

 following account of the same day's sport : — 



