]1S THE BEST SEASON ON RECORD. 



of an occasional name as tlie prominence of its owner 

 may compel. 



At tlie meet at Old Dalby were Mr. Coupland, liis son, 

 and Miss Webster, Lady Wilton, Lady Cardigan, Lord 

 Belper and Miss Strntt, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington, Major 

 and Miss Starkey, IMr. and Miss Chaplin, Miss Living- 

 ston, tlie Dnke of Portland, Lord Manners, Gen. Cliippin- 

 dale. Col. Percy, Col. Forester, Capts. Smith, Henry, 

 O'Neal, Ashton, Hill-Trevor, Campbell, Goodchild, ]\I. 

 Deschamps, Messrs Brocklehnrst, Beaumont, Behrens, 

 E. Chaplin, Cheney, Cradock, Cochrane, Forester, 

 Lubbock, C. W. and Ft. IMartin, Miles, 0. and W. Paget, 

 Parker, Pole Carew, Pry or, Praed, Turner- Farley, 

 Henton, Knight, Marshall, Pearson, Simpkin, Smith. 



The soft west wind of the early morning had veered 

 a trifle to the north ; and had a bite al)out it that — added 

 to arising glass, wet ground, and a quiet sky — portended, 

 nay, for once made a certainty of scent. It needed onl}^ 

 the sight of the leading couples flying up the fiillow above 

 Grimston Gorse to show the certaint}^ confirmed (for a 

 first ploughed field is a sure criterion of scent in a grass 

 country). Their fox had found himself, and crossed the 

 railway cutting as the field was leisurely taking its place 

 on the tunnel above. The huntsmen was for the 

 moment pent within the covert ; while, struggling and 

 straining forth one by one, the eager hounds worked 

 their way to the head, with the marvellous celerity that 

 distinguishes a highly bred and level pack. The body 

 of them were through the small sqnare wood of Saxelby 

 close by, and were streaming up the green hillside 



