January 21.] 
THE FIELD. 
HUNTINC. 
A Run with the Essex. — Before recounting the 
“ t ’ r °°f d hUDting run > we mu8t bo permitted to 
W to i/ T P h fl ? tory / eraa,k8 concerning the causes which 
IAvhuI Tbe , flxtur0 for Mr - Henley Greaves’s hounds was 
t r u th6 J Es30X Uniori Meet, «'* the same day, 
be ng at Gal ley wood common— too close to be pleasant for 
both packs to avoid the likelihood of a clash— Mr. Parker, 
le popu ar master of the Union, courteously gave up his 
r w, an invited Mr. Greaves to come into his country and 
show the sport to his field which lie intended. This truly 
gent eraanlike feeling met with a ready response, and after a 
breakfast at Baddow House, with its doors thrown back 
upon their hinges for all to come who would to partake of the 
hospitality provided for “English Squire, Knight of the 
ohire, and yeoman stout and true,” the Essex Union Hunt 
barring the hounds — moved gently forwards towards 
Moulsham Thrift to await the coming of the Essex. After 
experiencing a wholesome trial of patience, they were 
viewed in the distance stealing over the hill top, and a few 
minutes afterwards “ Cover hoik,” and the work com- 
menced. In the neutral cover Moulsham Thrift a brace 
of foxes was found, and had it not been for some “ muffs” 
in the road, one would have broken in a moment, but being 
headed twice hung fire ; nnd while Treadwell, the huntsman, 
was holding on to him, another was hallooed away. So 
much time, however, was lost, and the scent out of cover 
being cold, nothing could be done with him, and after 
picking over a few fallows, off we trotted to a sure find for 
the Union— the Forest. Here a clipper, as he proved, was 
soon afoot. With his nose for Swan wood out he came, and 
making his point, rattled through it on to Mr. Bridge’s 
cover, then to Jordan spring, skirting White’s wood, and 
pointing for Norsey. At Stock brook the select field paused ; 
but the gallant master of the Union crammed his first-rate 
chestnut at the rasper, and was left alone in his glory • 
for if many wished to charge it, none carried the wish into 
practical effect. The wind being a little too stiff in his 
teeth, Charley bore to the left for Forty Acres, but could not 
make the 6trong cover; and turning still more to the left 
tried for Bishop’s wood. Here a check took place, which 
doubtlessly saved his life ; for afterwards the hounds could 
only pick it on slowly towards Flemmings, whero he was 
lost. A kill would have proved, without doubt, a more 
satisfactory finish ; but it must be remembered that a good 
iox saved his life for another day. Among the straight goers 
were: J. Parker, Esq., the Hon. F. Petre, master of the 
staghounds, Hon. Arthur Petre, Sir Charles Smith T 
fridge, Esq., G. Hilliard, Esq., W. Wright, Esq., J. s’ 
Lester Esq., T. Helme, Esq., J. Christy, Esq., D. Scrattan, 
Esq., S. Reeve, Esq., the crack rider of the county, Messrs 
Horner, Parsons, W. Clarke, Gale, Dyke, and H. Hard- 
castlo, a young gentleman on a stiff pony showed what was 
in the bone would come out. It would be unjust not to add 
that Treadwell, considering the difficulties he had to contend 
with in an unknown couutry, of no easy kind, performed his 
duties admirably. 
The Old Berkshire Hounds.— O n Tuesday, the 
I0th these hounds met at Steventon— the first meet after 
the frost. They found a brace of foxes at Milton hill 
which they rattled merrily in the gorse, till one of them 
broke away at the lower eod, going through Mr. Easton’s 
plantations to Hendred village; hero the fox was headed, 
and doubled as if ho was coming back again to the gorse, 
but being a thorough good one, he made his point and 
boldly faced the open, just skirting Hendred knoll, through 
Abbott’s heath, on to the Ilsley downs. He now made* a 
wide sweep to the right to Betterton gorse, which he 
threaded, as well as Betterton coppice; then away to 
Lockinge brick-kiln, just leaving Coombe farm to the right, 
skirting one corner of Farnborough gorse, and into Farn- 
borough wood, where the hounds ran into this game fox 
after a run of one hour from Milton hill. It was a most 
satisfactory day’s sport ; the hounds did their work admirably, 
hunting and racing their fox as the scent served them. It 
is supposed that this was the same fox that the Craven hounds 
had so good a day with some little time back. Ranger 
Run with Mr - Trelawny’s Hounds.’— 
Old blowboy,” m the Plymouth Journal, gives the fol- 
Iowing account of a run with the Trelawny Hounds on the 
I7lh. Ihe meet was Newnham Park, but a thick fog pre- 
vented our going moorwards ; and the word was given for 
Chaddlewood and Lyncham woods, which were drawn blank. 
In Rail’s wood, however, we had a beautiful find; and the 
hounds getting away on good terms with their fox pointed 
first in the direction of Hareston, but turning short to the 
loft on the top of the hill, threw out the field, who (with the 
exception of Captain Harris) saw no more of them, and 
running at a rattling pace through Wallaton, and part of 
IJJtley, marked him to ground at Yealmpton, Western Torrs, 
in a subterraneous dungeon, known to sight-seers as “ Kitley 
Cavern, ’ and from which it is impossible to get out a fox 
by the ordinary process of digging and tendering. We then 
trotted off to Wonttall and Swineson, and into Swineson 
brake the hounds dashed with a capital drag, and in less 
than five minutes one or two well-known tongues followed 
by a crash, proclaimed that a fox was up, and going, for go 
they did at a rattling pace down the bottom, through Stetchly 
Hams, crossed the river Yealm into New England, up the 
steep part of the cover, crossed the road, turned to the left 
to Ireoby, through Treeby meadows, to the right of the old 
kennel at Lyneham, crossed the Yealton-road as if pointing 
for Lyneham wood, turned to the left again, through Jenny’s 
grove, and over Mr. Parnel’s pastures at Bowden to 
Yealmpton Torrs, where this fox went to ground in the 
same place as the first, after a burst of twenty-seven minutes, 
without a cast, and with only one momentary check. The 
head the hounds carried was the admiration of those who 
were near enough to see it through the very dense fog which 
prevailed throughout the day, and too much credit cannot bo 
gi ven to their kennel feeder, John Freeman, for the condition 
his hounds are in. 
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wherever he went, the first whip of other seasons looked as 
entrvTnfn n hav ? 8660 fow short of 8event y winters since his 
f.“l y u th !f J ,reathin g world. The frosted hair still left 
THE OLD EARTH-STOPPER, OR THE FIND 
AND THE FINISH. 
chapter i. I (.uVr? Dreal , h,ng world - The Posted hair still left 
fnt . SN .™ bpstelrie was the Jolly Gardener. That far- chin nublishedTh! ? °? d , lho . a PP™*iniaUng nose and 
w d li V 'i Bge l° n P , OS 5 e88ed attr actions of no ordinary kind, fact that whenawr rZ *** whe i efore of ,he unquestionable 
as will be acknowledged in the sequel; but the comely rvarablvnrn? P rr.7T "as offered a crust and cheese he 
person and winning ways of the landlady, Mistress Box heafth hLSl«5 ? C ?“ mb and butter - The tinge of 
must, in the common order of merit, be confessed as the large grev eves’ 8 iS2i- bP 8 ? kly on bis cbeek > and his full, 
head and front of them. Mistress Box was a widow fair brow seemed' to \ ng b ® nealh tl,e e,, aggy, beetling 
fat, and— as she emphatically averred to John Brown the the obieet thav fi?i *' te a .V d 8 i,nlet themselves through 
SBS5CTK SSE* 125.23MS £ s£S&Z$- i 
bMri " s ~ i era iz a zsrz 
In the strict acceptation of the term the landlady n f J njahogany tops, he was still always scrupulously neat in his 
de v el o p m e n to f 1 lie i 3 bu s t ,^a n^ hei^ I'm o o' t h, shining'fac^was ‘° ^ ° f Tom Pitls - ’ th ® 
vanour°fronf a I Wal.er' jerking d&"7SS"S 
vapour from a bowl of fragrant punch. The ver/essenee I ZJ’ JT' UtS T u . eau m th0 dir cction of where the 
of good humour sparkled in her clear blue eyes, and to hear ° f tl,e * 0U & w,nter m 8 ht raost distinctly might bo 
a merry laugli ring from the widow’s red lips produced the »r . . „ 
if n J2» « n ^ ! h ° Ught , tbat 6,16 ,nilst have experienced as .ton' toTnnlT 7 infoPmed by Tora that had put a 
lit le association with blighting sorrow as a widow reason- <fv. huntmg. 
ably could expect, under the ordinary circumstances of so bendTn looks observed Joh n Brown, 
forlorn a condition. And then her dress; why, there was upon the hound, as he laid comfortably 
- • ’• D erB was I stretched belore the fire, with n n » _ . ? 
stretched before the fire, with his nose buried between his 
fore feet, and turning his eyes gravely upwards from time to 
time upon the features of the eurthstopper. 
na°L a kdy th ® c ° Unty ’ DOt even fke distinguished 
patronesses of the hunt and race balls, more minutely 
particular in the attention to her toilet than Mistress Box I “'“cV*'"" l,,u l . ,ea, ' ,res °« me eurthstopper. 
That little sham of a cap, through some imperceptible n . M Yfl \ re P lled Tom Pitts, with mingled pride nnd fond- 
agency kept its assigned place on the extreme ba£k division "®n’ » S 118 eyCS fel1 upoa hi3 ^vourite, “ Vanquisher looks 
of her head, and the peach-coloured ribands, with which it m • , . 
was profusely ornamouted, flutiered and rustled as she « Jf ,° d 1S "l ? Inquired the dairyman. 
bustled about with an alacrity truly marvellous; for IDl.t fin.ilin^ a fl , " ostareard to ll,ink >” replied the earlhstopper 
kerchief t r ,bei ‘ frame Waa heavy. 8 Asnmvy ^ " W39 & rnUC “ y ° UDff0r ,na °’ John > wbenba 
kerchief veiled the capacious bosom, which heaved more ® « wit,* , , , , 
quickly than its wont upon the frequent visits of the bachelor Hiring W0nder,| e ^been,” ejaculated the successful can- 
da.ryman to the Jolly Gardener, and a lonV-wais ed d ‘ da ^, th ® ban f«f M^tress Box. 
sombre kirtle subdued an effect which, otherwise, might rejoined Tom Pltts > “ 0 better never opened to 
have proved too dazzling to bear without the aid of green ..'ft,- • 
spectacles. Such were the outlines of the personal sketch entered' 1 fh J 0 UDCture , the . landlady of tho Jolly Gardener ro- 
of Mistress Box. p entered tho room, bearing a horn of reeking fluid, w |,j c h she 
. U P°? , tb0 sumn >it of a lull, commanding an extensive |f pbal,caI1 J recommended to be drunk “ while it 
and the sign of that pleasantest of^roadsi^S tio^M^aft^’d eartb f opper roadi, y obeyed the direc- 
on its time-worn hinge, presented a truthful illustea? „ , d . ra “? n ? tl,e ve3Sel to ^ last drop, gave the 
tion of its universally admitted claim to joviality. With a ?* p. de £ erat ® Wink ’ , a,,d 1?aid ’ “ Good * rn y bloioin!” 
foot idly resting upon a spade, the Jolly Gardener was re- mon « PS ’ M°. m ’ re,navked ,he to-bo-envied young dairy- 
presented in the very act of puffing the white 'creamy n,d L . yau d tip aa 0110 °’ those flying runs when Van- 
head from a tankard of ale; and dressed in a sky-E * “f h A " If' 1 *7?“ tbe Flnd ‘° the Finish -” 
J nf C H et, i CanaPy Wai8tcoat ’ aud greenbreecl.es, with a bunch last ft>e’ll 1 -ten f, bs , t ° PI, ® r ' f F. om bis to his 
of blush roses, as big as a cauliflower, in a button-hole anon a 7 a 1 ’ tlie y re al1 here » 00d a* lie spoke he 
Ins left breast, he certainly looked a far more Jolly Gardener P « oh f„ flng ® r . 91 S“ ,g0ant, y up 0 « the centre of his forehead, 
than is generally met with in the highways and^vwavs of -ho °- ' ® xclaimedM ‘ stre33 Rox, ‘ if there's going to be a 
life. Pigeons of varied plumage wheeled in cir^bout I hanling tal ® from Mr - 1 shall stay,” and 
the hollow pollard oak, spreading like a -rrim -iant within thn^wid furth ®{' introdact ‘on concerning her resolve, down 
a few yards of tbe door, aJound the gnarle? trunk of which n ™ by the of , t , he gal,ant Jobn Brown, who, 
a bench was placed; and here of a summer’s ni<dit pines U ““ ece f “7 to add ’ ^adejust sufficient room to 
S r ked ’ 1 S0DgS Were 6un "' aild ™any a tale a°nd 7ovy I W1 . lh a W 6 ^ ueezing ' 
told. When, however, tho season was not of that genial 
kind which admitted of the evening being spent beneath 
the wide-spreading branches of the old pollard oak, a goodly 
number of boon companions assembled under the roof of 
the Jolly Gardener, behind the high horseshoe-panelled 
screen, purposely designed by Mistress Box herself to 
keep the wind from attacking her customers in the rear 
wmlst an ashen faggot crackled round a log that seemed, 
rora the hours it lasted, to be proof against the fierce 
flames which licked and flared about it. 
It was a winter’s night, the wind moaned deeply through 
nnnrrlw nf tlm _ _ i - » 1 • o 
Tom Pitts cleared his voice and then began— 
(To be continued.) 
TURF TALK 
“ The chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
Oun Sailor Kino. 
However puzzled the imperial donor of the Ascot cup 
may feel at present on his favourite subject of “ materiul 
the boughs of 'thV'noilard onlT ' a J° Ugn I guai : antee 1 s ’.” 1 0ur t En g' ish ‘^fltes are in no sucl. fix. Tho 
fhtel- oioot o 6 P , - U 0 . » and now and then, a entries winch closed on Jan. 2 are the most “ material 
noise as if smaH shXhad lie^Il 194 the wi . ndow > wilh the guarantee” they ever had, that their favourite pastime is 
« rS ‘ „ . een tbr ,°r n again8t the likely to run a successful course in 1854. 
Waller the ten Lir g „ ; Un ’ ne,gl,bouis .”. remarked Sam Last year boasted of “ monster entries” for the sarin- 
Ia?e smithv - ** i? d ‘ nu8C “ , ? r P ro P rie : f or of the vil- handicaps, but they quite sink into the shade now. P Fof 
bowl geutlv on tho f K? m h J S lips ’. and knockin ? tho instance, the three Manchester cups have 255 entries against 
prMeeded to reehft^«°f/ b 6W , do " n f tba and then 208 last year; the Doncaster handicap, 78 against Co “ the 
earthen tebacco-boTstandin/ ° f / m ^ an E P som ,iand ' c ap (°ne of ^ w^iich foolishly closed in December), 
“ Il’s a r ou^i *"11 n rm i cr h h g > th ® A ^ ble before bim. 220 against 204 ; the Northamptonshire stakes, 118 agains 
A fuff g h-® 11 . ne' ghbou M ,» wpaatod he. 117; and the Chester cup, 216 against 217 York in 
heard th <? 8 °x1 nd °I a PP roacl »ng footsteps was addition to her 210 spring iiandicap entry, has secured 98 
the anDearanceoTf v e ^ Ct 8 °°, n became manifest by entries against 44 for other spring meeting stakes, and 132 
the form of Torn Pftte addltiaaal member to the company in for August meeting stakes against 102 last year. Her great 
to the lTaluZnt n ^ Doncaster ’ als0 looms majestically in the distance, 
many kinds with 1 T , count y- A S° aud infirmities of with a list for September such as never gladdened tho eves 
nddiJJd n • \ tb a P aitlcu,a1 ' weakness to which Tom was of her Corporation before. It seems that this mysterious 
had^on-^ne^ohU^ °I t ? I ? er tban tbe cal,s of thirst demanded, and much-abused body are now clearing, as nearly as 
in ? b u t° in addhten to th res J gn | the , off J ce of whipper- possible, 2,000/. a year out of tl.eir races ; 1,000/. of which 
’ , a i„„ 8d the popularity which attended his | constitutes 5 per cent, interest on the 20,000/. valuation of 
fr 1» -*n.. J , ...1. 1 1 . A 1 . . ..1 1 .\A.il • . _ 
name as one of the first of his class in all that attained to 
the science of fox-hunting, he was admitted, with one accord, 
to be, when present, the best of all good company. Great 
therefore, as may readily be imagined, was the commotion 
which Tom’s entry caused among those who gathered around 
the wood fire at the Jolly Gardener’s, and every one seemed 
most desirous of evincing his cordial satisfaction at what was 
felt to be a pleasure in store. 
T nm p:.," ...... , Haim hi mo council, ana inereiore i ,uuui. or upwards will oe 
2".iboV q c„ e 'LC7 S °p tembsr -. 
Rand , in TnE Eion ’ 8 Mouth. — An occurrence of a sin- 
gulur nature happened on Monday night last, at Wombwell’s 
menageno, Cast e- terrace, Edinburgh. During the feeding of 
the animals the lion Wallaco was seen to rush wildly to and fro 
W^r 0n,a J ld ,°! 1 0 08 7 °' )SOrvn fi°n it was ascertained that a 
wn™ W wblcIl t h0 ,ad att0 “P led t0 8 wallow had stuck cross- 
br °, l,t ii alffi09t Buftocatmg him. Two of the keepers 
handR °- r f , tl10 tl 0 " ooftb f n ‘ bad a pitchfork, tho 
nandlo of which ho got into the animal’s mouth, after which he 
courageously thrust his arm down the lion’s throat and suo- 
Moded in displacing the bono with his hand. Considerable excite- 
“- rr Ied amon 8: 8t th0 visitors and others, great 
SSL i g a 80 fe , U for tho 8afet y of tbo ml rep id keepors. 
m boa soon recovered,— Scotsman. 1 
. * ^ ri uotu, wiiy name 
into an elbow, cushioned chair brought by Mistress Box’s 
own hands, and placed, after much solicitude about the 
wind getting through some supposed chink or cranny in 
the immediate neighbourhood of his back, iu a warm 
baking position facing the yule log. 
Mistress Box was always assiduous in her attentions to tbe 
whole of her customers, rich or poor, great or small ; but 
the buxom widow had her favourites: that she admitted 
and in the foremost rank stood Tom Pitts. “ Whitt, therefore 
would lie be pleased to take this cold night? Should it 
be a pint of his favourite purl, made as usual ? or a tankard 
of hot spiced ale, a jorum of punch, a glass of hot with, or 
“ Purl, widow,” interrupted Tom, “ let it bo purl, my 
blossom.” 
The blossom, having received the necessary directions, 
hastened to fulfil them, nnd with a sly peep out of the extreme 
corners of her eyes at John Brown, away rustled the thick 
silk kirtle, nnd the peach-coloured ribands fluttered gaily 
as she went. During her temporary absence a fitting oppor- 
tunity seems to present itself of introducing a portrait of Tom 
As he sat in his chair, with an old badger-pied foxhound 
the stands, while the other 1,000/. just meets the 1,000/. 
annual subscription which they have voted for five years 
towards tho rebuilding of their ill-fated parish church. It is 
pleasant to think that their gains out of the racing men are 
thus applied, and that many of tho latter have subscribed 
directly, as well as indirectly, to so noble a work. At 
present the “ progressionists ” have completely got the upper 
hand in the council, and therefore I, C00/. or upwards will be 
^ » e v 
must be made for the appareut want of liberality in the cor- 
poration hitherto, as they bavo had to encounter the most 
fierce opposition from the “ anti-race party,” which lias 
nearly all the wealth and aristocracy of the town in its ranks. 
But for the ceaseless war-cry of the Doncaster Gazette, the 
vigour and determination of the innkeepers at the ward- 
elections, aud the popularity and tact of the clerk of the 
course, the St. Loger would probably, ere now, bavo become 
a mere thing of the past. Happily, opposition only stirred up 
the “ raciag-men,” and they have thus not ouly put fresh 
blood into the autumn one, but puid off their opponents with 
interest, by raising up a first-rate spring meetiug at its side. 
Wo observe not a few “ new men ’’among the nominators 
this Jauuary, and judgingfrom tho fact that their names 
appear attached to fresh entries, the retirements of tho 
Duke of Richmond and tho Marquis of Exeter have only 
tho conventional meaning, to wit, stud-weeding. We are 
not likely to see the “ bonny blue aud silver” of Lord 
Londesbro’ on the turf again, but his lordship, we are glad 
to hear, still iutends to breed and nominate blood stock. 
Racing-men generally, are now all on tho qui vice, to see 
the result of tho handicapping labours of the “ Adinirul,” 
and Messrs. Topham and Johnson. Tho former is uow 
l. j • r , • W . IU uaager-piea loxnouua ana Messrs, lopimm ana Johnson. Tho former is uow 
stretched at his feet, who invariably accompanied him | fairly lashed alongside of two very formidable rivals ; but wo 
