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the H. H. his efforts to show sport were gene- 

 rally crowned with success. 



Lord Gifford had sixty couple of hunting 

 hounds, and hunted them himself; he was 

 assisted in his first season by Charles Cross 

 and Richard Hall ; and in his second Servants. 

 and third by Jack Grant and Dan Berkshire. 



Grant came from Lord Parker.* Jack Grant. 

 He had lived with Lord Gifford before, and 

 thoroughly understood his system. He was a 

 very quiet man with hounds, and knew his 

 business in the kennel as well as in the field. 

 He is since dead. 



Arrangements were now made by the com- 

 mittee of the H. H. with Sir John Cope about 

 the country round Greywell, and permission 

 was granted to him to draw the coverts there, 

 under certain conditions. 



" The Hursley had a fine run from 18 ^- 



Hur^lev 



Chilworth Lodge on January 15th, Good run 

 the residence of Sir Edward Butler, AVO rth. 

 over the Baddesley country ; the fox was run 

 into and broken up, and nothing left but the 

 head, before any one could get to them, which 

 was a matter of regret to Mr. Cockburn, who 

 wished to present the brush to Mr. Gearing, 

 for his gallant manner of riding through this 



* Lord Parker keeps the South Oxfordshire. He is now known as 

 the Earl of Macclesfield. 



