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wearing their hair down, and riding ponies, Miss K. 

 Hodgson and Miss Victoria Heathcote. 



A run voted the " best seen in three seasons," a 

 nine-mile point from Harby to Staunton, came off 

 on the 14th of December. The cream of the 

 gallop was up to Jericho, which was reached in 

 twenty minutes, the full time to the finish at 

 Allington being one hour and a half. The leading 

 division were Mr. W. de Winton, Mr. James 

 Hutchinson, Mr. V. Hemery, Mr. E. Lubbock, Mr. 

 Noel Fenwick, Mr. Basil Cochrane, Mr. Gordon 

 Wilson, Mr. T. Hutchinson and Mr. J. Brewster, 

 whilst Mr. Grey Fullerton and Bob Cotesworth 

 fell at wire. The plough lands by Jericho were 

 very deep after the frost, so that a check was wel- 

 comed, for the little Belvoir bitches had the foot 

 of horses all the way. When Bob Knott signalled 

 the fox away on the Staunton side, those who kept 

 closest to hounds were Lord Lonsdale, the Hon. 

 L. Lowther, Captain Burns, and Mr. Gardner 

 Muir, many opinioning this to be the best run seen 

 in three years. 



A cloudy sky and a mild moist air gave promise 

 of a scent lying on December 17th, when hounds 

 met at Three Queens, and they went away on the 

 back of their evening fox from Coston Covert with 

 a point for Wymondham. The pioneers of the 

 gallop were Captain Lee Barber riding a gray, Mr. 

 Arthur Hutchinson, on his well -know cream- 

 coloured, with Gillard on old Farewell. Quickly 

 flew the golden minutes of pleasure as hounds 

 streaked across a sea of grass, and on reaching the 



