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with difficulty stopped, and life given to 

 one of the most sporting foxes this country 

 or perhaps any other ever produced. — Con- 

 sidering the great number of sportsmen in 

 the field that day, it may be remarked as 

 extraordinary, that only the four following 

 rode through, and were at the end of the 

 hunt : Mr. M. H. Draught ; Mr. Richard 

 Hammersley, riding Coriolanus ; Mr. J. 

 Doolan, on Paddy from Cork; Mr. P. 

 Chadwick, on his famous chesnut mare; 

 and Tony, though last, not least, riding 

 Kate, the best mare in Ireland." 



It gave me great pleasure to find from 

 this animated description, that they keep 

 up the spirit of the chase with unabated ar- 

 dour, and fox-hunting still continues the 

 most fashionable amusement in the sister 

 country. In Scotland several new packs 

 have been recently established. Wales, 

 too, can boast many very keen lovers of 

 the sport; though there, I am told, the 



