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Lodge -on -the -Wolds. The point was Roehoe 

 Wood, but the fox, finding the artificial earths 

 closed, made an attempt to go to Wynstay Gorse, 

 till a sheep-dog interfered and drove him back 

 through the covert which the Quorn had entered. 

 Mr. Sherbrooke, riding with the Quorn, left that 

 hunt to see the Belvoir kill the fox they had 

 brought from his covert. After slow hunting 

 round the Curate, the fox took a course parallel 

 with the Smite, and got to ground in a rabbit 

 hole by Clawson, from which he was ejected, and 

 being too stiff to run farther, was killed. The 

 time from the find to Roehoe Wood was twenty- 

 five minutes, to the finish fifty-five minutes. The 

 barometer fell during the day, and a southerly 

 wind freshened up into a gale towards evening. 



A curious experience befell a sportsman on one 

 occasion when hounds met at Waltham, and the 

 day's operations lay entirely in the Melton district. 

 When riding the line of fences from Burbidge's 

 Covert towards Stapleford, a route interwoven 

 with railway and river, he had occasion to dis- 

 mount, and his horse thereupon entered the river, 

 swimming across to join the hounds on the far 

 side. No sooner had he reached the opposite bank 

 than a friendly horseman tried to catch him, but 

 he turned round, entered the water again, and 

 swam back to his rightful owner. Was not the 

 latter an unlooked-for act of Providence ! 



On February 5th, after a good run of an hour 

 and a half, a curious finish resulted with a railway- 

 loving Rauceby fox. After running all over the 



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