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possibly beat it for goodness and severity. The 

 find was proclaimed from Sproxton Thorns, from 

 which covert hounds were quickly away for 

 Coston Covert, running like wildfire without 

 slackening to Crown Point, where they turned for 

 Woodwell Head. Here two or three foxes were 

 afoot, but the pack stuck to the line of their hunted 

 one and eventually got him away towards Wymond- 

 ham back to covert again. With hounds running 

 very keen for blood, he could never shake them 

 off, and as a last shift to save his life, made for a 

 drain between Thistleton and Crown Point, which 

 he was viewed to enter with the pack snapping at 

 his brush, after one of the fastest and severest runs 

 on record. A terrier unfortunately killed this 

 good fox in the drain, and he was dragged out 

 with a hook at the end of a pole to be given to the 

 hounds. 



A large field assembled on February 19th at 

 Leadenham House and included its squire, Colonel 

 " Jack " Reeves, with his neighbour and contempor- 

 ary, Colonel Francis Fane of Fulbeck, Mr. Henry 

 and Lady Florence Chaplin, Sir John and Lady 

 Thorold, Lord Brownlow, Sir Thomas Whichcote, 

 Mr. John Welby, Mrs. Franklin, the Misses 

 Willson, Captain Tennant, Mr. Allcard, Mons. 

 Roy, Mons. Couturie, and Mr. Alfred Cross. 

 Without troubling about the details of an average 

 day's sport, we will describe a curious accident 

 which befell the last-named sportsman, who always 

 enjoyed his ride. Hounds had left Fulbeck hill- 

 top, sinking the vale, and after Gillard had nego- 



