. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . flower beds, grottos and lovers walks, till nowthey climbed about a succession of wooded heights that ledwestwards in the direction of Braunston village. At thefmther extremity of these, hounds at length pushed a fox out,ran him fast over half a dozen light ploughs with easy sub-dividing fences, then tm-ned after him to re-enter the big woodsonce more. Six and fourteen miles from home ! No ; itcouldnt be done. So taking off our hat to the Castle o


. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . flower beds, grottos and lovers walks, till nowthey climbed about a succession of wooded heights that ledwestwards in the direction of Braunston village. At thefmther extremity of these, hounds at length pushed a fox out,ran him fast over half a dozen light ploughs with easy sub-dividing fences, then tm-ned after him to re-enter the big woodsonce more. Six and fourteen miles from home ! No ; itcouldnt be done. So taking off our hat to the Castle of Bel-voir, in gratitude to the Duke who gives us our sport with soliberal a hand, we puUed up till the last sound of horn andhound had faded into the forest depths; then turned home-wards to wait another season. 1877—78.] END OF THE SEASON. 247 Our runs and our gallops are over for a time. That a burstwith hounds is a thing worth living for remains to us as a factproved and positive—but a fact that for a while must be heldin abeyance and cherished only in memory. The cry of six-teen couple—the dash of a twenty-minutes scurry—the. DUKE OF ELTLAND. exuberant and excited companionship of the chase, must standover till another autumn. The dawdle of the Park, the plea-sures of Ascot, the whirr of the grouse will take its place ; buthope will often glance forward to Cream Gorse and Ranksboro,while thought will frequently recur to the crippled favourite athome, whose last overtaxed effort has doomed him to blisterand the iron. SEASON 1878-79. BOOT AND SADDLE.


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