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in the West of England ; Lord Douglas, Lord Norreys, 

 Lord Hastings, Lord Calthorpe, the Earl of Wicklow, 

 Earl Annesley, not mounted, but seated in a carriage 

 by the side of Mrs. Markham ; Captain Riddell, Mr. 

 Cecil Samuda, Colonel Markham, the Hon. Hugh 

 Trevor, the Hon. Hugh Lowther, Sir Beaumont Dixie, 

 Mr. Lubbock, Mr. Frevven, Captain Smith, the Messrs. 

 Behrens, Sir Charles Fitzgerald, Mr. Delacour, Cap- 

 tain Tempest, Mr. Gordon Bennett, Captain Atkinson, 

 Mr. Brand, Count Lemmerman ; Mr. Younger, dis- 

 mounted, with his arm in a sling ; the ever-pleasant 

 and agreeable Major Paynter, the Rev. Mr. Buller, 

 who, though handicapped heavily by age, having 

 scored upwards of eighty years, seems as tough and as 

 fit to go as ever ; Mr. Chaplin (of Blankney), Dr. 

 Roberts, Dr. Powell, Mr. Cass, Captain Boyce, and 

 ^^ The Coming Man'' in Leicestershire, Colonel Burnaby, 

 of Baggrave Hall. Then up rides Mr. Coupland, the 

 Master of the Quorn, and the order is given to move 

 on to Gartree Hill, a cover that never fails to hold a 

 fox ; at this point many other well-known men are 

 found in waiting. Captain Hartopp, Mr. Burbige in a 

 carriage, but looking as if he was merely reserving 

 himself for next season, not having been fit to go 

 during the present — well, I suppose, like myself, after 

 hunting for upwards of half a century, he finds it 

 necessary to pull up now and then; Custance, who 

 whiles his leisure hours away by going his hardest over 

 the grass; and many others who had been made 

 acquainted with the programme of the day. " Halloo 

 in there " is the cry of the huntsman, and but a brief 

 space of time elapses ere the welcome sound of '^ Gone 

 away. Gone away'' is heard, for a noble fox has 



