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and lent Squires his horse) ; here the fox 

 turned into the enclosures, by Nurstead and 

 Bureton, and again faced the hills crossed at 

 starting, and struggled on to Highden, where 

 every horse was beaten to a stand-still, and 

 Squires reluctantly called the hounds off, after 

 running for three hours over not less than 

 twenty-three miles of most severe country. 

 Squires's mare died the next day. Out of a 

 field of about sixty at starting, only about a 

 dozen saw the end of this very severe day." — 

 From BelTs Life. 



"Sir John Cope's hounds had a fine Nov. 27. 



/> r . •! • .1 . Sir John 



run 01 fourteen miles without a cope, from 

 check from Eversley Bridge. Al- Eversle ^- 

 though then in his seventy-seventh year, Sir 

 John was up at the finish." — From Bell's 

 Life. 



In the Sporting Magazine, p. 170, l 84 ?- 

 the hounds are thus noticed: "As biedon 

 we approached the place of meeting, L °™J ^ii. 7 

 Bury Lodge, we overtook Mr. Leth- ^Lennox, 

 bridge, mounted on an extremely clever brown 

 mare, and Mr. Sicklemore, of the navy, on a 

 chesnut gelding that looked as if he could go, 

 nor did he belie his looks. The rendezvous 

 took place in front of a most comfortable-look- 

 ing building, Bury Lodge, where the lawn was 

 graced by the presence of ladies, and a hunters' 



