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Chopwell, or to the Duke's Rush, near Whittonstall. Occa- 

 sionally they will haag to the Prudhoe Coverts and Bradley 

 Dene close by ; but on the whole they are travellerg, and good 

 runs from the Guards or from Hyons Wood are of fairly fre- 

 quent ooourrence. Hyons Wood was for a time a rabbit 

 warren, and is a trappy place to ride through, on aooount of 

 half-concealed open water cuts. It lies in another fold of the 

 hills, a mile west of the Guards, and is even more isolated. 

 But parta of the covert are damp lying, and it is not> so certain 

 a find as its neighbour. It was the starting place of the fine 

 hunt of Jan 9, 1904, to which I lately referred. Before 

 leaving the Prudhoe coverts I may mention that for many 

 years they were the property of Mr. John. Liddell, whose eldest 

 son, Capt. John Aidan Liddell, won the Victoria Cross, and 

 unfortunately succumbed to his injuries after having per- 

 formed one of the most brilliant and dangerous feats of the 

 great war. The Liddell family were good fox preservers at 

 Prudhoe, but now the estat^e — or some part of it — has been 

 bought by the county council, and Prudhoei Hall has been, or 

 is being, turned into an institution of sorts. 



