150 HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



accompanied him everywhere, even when driving 

 in his carriage, and in a frenzy she bit Lord 

 Doneraile and his coachman. Both started off to 

 Paris to undergo Pasteur's treatment. The coach- 

 man was not a pennyweight the worse, but Lord 

 Doneraile died. 



The season closed with a remarkable hunting 

 run which lasted four hours, and the distance 

 hounds travelled when measured on the ordnance 

 map was 26 miles. This fox was started in the 

 Debdale cover, and he ran through Allington, 

 Bottesford, Belvoir, back to Croxton and Denton 

 Park, being killed in Mr. Beasley's front garden at 

 Harston. The only sportsman who remained to 

 see the finish was Mr. George Drummond. It 

 might be thought that hounds did not keep to the 

 line of the same fox throughout this run, but there 

 was no doubt about it, because it was noticed by 

 several people who saw the find that a piece of fur 

 was missing from the middle of his brush, and this 

 was found to be so when hounds killed him. 



Taken altogether it was an average season's 

 sport of 119 hunting days, 105 foxes killed, and 41 

 marked to ground. 



DAHLIA BY SHAMROCK DILIGENT. 



