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was right, and the Duke admitted so when he met 

 him next day. This fox took almost a straight line 

 for Croxton Park, through Haydour Southings, 

 Ropsley Rise, Ponton Park Wood, crossing the 

 Great Northern Railway, passing to the left of the 

 School Platts covert, where he ran out of scent. 

 " The distance was eleven miles as the crow flies, 

 and I knew him directly by his dark appearance, to 

 be our Hose Gorse fox, who had, during the 

 season, given three nice gallops from that covert, 

 in the direction of Croxton Park. We never did 

 account for him, so I fear that he came to a bad 

 end." The hunting days of this season were 139, 

 and 115 foxes were killed, with 26 marked to 

 ground. 



A SINKING FOX. 



