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Lady Mary Willoughby, well carried by her good 

 gray, upholding the honours for the Cottesmore. 

 At the end of the day hounds killed a fox in a 

 barrel drain under the North Road by Stoke. 

 Nearly the whole pack followed and broke him up 

 in the drain, one hound afterwards bringing out 

 the mask and another the brush. 



To start the new year with a red-letter day 

 augured well, and this was the luck of the Belvoir 

 after meeting at Croxton Park. The run was 

 nothing less than a repetition of the famous gallop 

 of December 18th from Buckminster. A hard- 

 riding field had as good a country as the heart 

 of man could wish, with the big dog pack again 

 streaming away over quick -scenting grass to 

 Woodwell Head. Only a small band of riders 

 were with them, and these included Lord Edward 

 Manners, the Rev. J. P. Seabrooke, Mr. and 

 Miss Musters, Mrs. Cecil Chaplin, Mr. and Miss 

 Hodgson, Mr. F. Worseley, Mons. Roy, Mr. Held- 

 mann, Captain Rennie, Mr. James Hutchinson, and 

 W. Gale. 



Accounts agreed from all parts of the kingdom 

 in pronouncing the month of January this season a 

 good one for scent, so that long and straight runs 

 were the order of the day. The mercury stood for 

 an exceptionally long period phenomenally high, 

 frost did not interfere, and rain came latterly. In 

 the diary Gillard placed the mark of excellence 

 against the doings of the 1st, 10th, llth, 14th, 

 15th, 17th, 20th, 25th, and 31st. 



Referring to the incidents of the llth, we find 



