3 74 Saddle and Sirloin. 



in Worcestershire last season, drove fourteen miles to 

 the train, reached Stafford, changed trains, and on 

 through the night to Carlisle, down the Newcastle 

 railway, and then by " The Dandy," alias the horse- 

 tram carriage to Brampton, and on the field some six 

 miles away by ten o'clock. Six different conveyances, 

 and sleep as you can ! Such are the labours of popular 

 officials.* 



There was once some beautiful running at 

 Broughton, which has no plough, and fine undulating 

 grass fields, of from 50 to 100 acres. The Ox 

 Pasture, which is bounded on one side by the river 

 Air, was the queen of them ; and Selby, Clive, Hughie 

 Graham, and Dalton ran there. At one meeting they 

 had twenty-one courses out of it, but that was done 

 by drilling the beaters like soldiers. There are a few 

 hedges, but the majority of the fences are walls. Sir 

 Charles Tempest took great interest in the sport at 

 one time, but an attack which was made upon his 

 keepers by a Lancaster band of poachers disgusted 

 him, and he ordered all the hares to be shot down. It 

 was a very great grief to the Skipton people, but since 

 Sir Charles died the meeting has been renewed. 

 Harewood is bad, enclosed ground ; and Baldock, 

 which is all grass, is something like Wiltshire, with 

 plough farms, very few fences, and thin barley land. 

 Cardington Great Field is shaped like a water-dish, 

 and very little intersected with hedges. The hares 

 are in the low parts, and the skirts always take the 

 hill, and like the Dirleton hares, find them where you 

 may, they are evenly good. 



" As a rule," according to Mr. Nightingale, " hares 

 are more equal on corn than grass-land. They differ 

 very much. At Eaglesham the red-legged hares were 



* At Ashdown there were formerly two tryers, one at the top and 

 the other at the bottom of the hill. 



For Ashdown Coursing see "Scott and Sebright," pp. 244-248. 



