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oftener, and require the coverts to be re- 

 turned ; in that case the person who has 

 had the temporary enjoyment of them 

 has no alternative but to give them up 

 quietly. 



The giving up a certain part of your 

 country, held by the concurrence of the 

 neighbouring gentlemen, without their sanc- 

 tioning the measure, is by no means the 

 same thing as only allowing another hunt 

 to draw some of your coverts, when you 

 can do without them. 



" It needs no ghost to tell us " that 

 Leicestershire stands pre-eminent for fox- 

 hunting ; but I have heard from some old 

 sportsmen, the foxes do not run so straight 

 as formerly, owing to canals, and so many 

 new gorses. I met, the other day, some 

 Leicestershire men, who told me, (what all 

 the youngsters of the day had told me before,) 

 that such sport never was known, nor such 

 riding, and that Melton never was so full. 



