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Carrs, where he dwelt a few seconds. His bolt 

 was shot, and he went away again only a hundred 

 yards in front of the pack, who coursed and killed 

 him by Rauceby High Wood after a gallop of fifty 

 minutes. 



The brush was presented to Mr. Ashmead 

 Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, out for the first time with 

 these hounds, hunting from Grantham, where he 

 stayed the season at the George Hotel with the 

 Baroness soon after their marriage. Mr. Burdett- 

 Coutts had a good stud of hunters, which carried 

 him well to the front ; he hunted four seasons with 

 the Belvoir, and then abandoned the chase, dis- 

 heartened by a series of heavy falls. 



On November 12th the big pack of 18 J couple 

 trotted off to Sherbrooke's Covert, which on this 

 occasion held but one fox. " We were some time 

 in getting him away," said Frank, ransacking the 

 storehouse of his memory ; " he made a false start, 

 but at last crossed the Smite and ran in the direction 

 of Hose Thorns, bearing right-handed for Clawson 

 and Hose, and we killed him close to the house in 

 which Mr. Burton used to live. I have no doubt 

 but what he meant going to Harby Hills, but the 

 hounds pressed him so hard he had to yield up his 

 brush sooner. I certainly never saw hounds run 

 harder for 15 minutes, and but four of us were 

 with them, viz. Captain 'Bay' Middleton, Captain 

 Pennell Elmhirst, Will Wells and myself. It was 

 charming ! " 



Grand sport resulted this season, and amongst 

 many red-letter days there was the run of November 



