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was something out of the common way, I 

 wrote to Mr. Smith, requesting him to oblige 

 me with an account of it, which I now present 

 to your readers. It will, undoubtedly, remind 

 many of them of what hunting was forty years 



ago. 



In reply to your letter,' says Great 



a <. 



run 



Mr. Smith, ' I will endeavour to de- *™/p*£, 

 scribe the run we had on Monday, Jan - 18th - 

 January 18th. We met at Stanstead Park, 

 at which place I was informed, by a note from 

 Mr. Bingham Newland, that Colonel George 

 Wyndham's hounds were coming to Funting- 

 don-lane-end, about two miles off. I conse- 

 quently determined on drawing away from 

 that point, leaving part of Stanstead Forest 

 not drawn, and trotted away to the Markwells, 

 a covert belonging to Sir S. Jervoise; found 

 in his covert called the Oliphants, about one 

 o'clock ; wind at north-west. The hounds went 

 off directly up wind, their very best pace, over 

 the Down, by the Markwells, skirting Lady 

 Holt Park, straight through Ditcham, without 

 a turn in this immense covert, leaving Ditcham 

 House on the left, where, finding the wind in 

 his teeth, he bore away over Hasting Down to 

 Up Park, in which they passed through a large 

 herd of deer. He now took over the South 



