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Conibroke to the brook near Foss Farm (Mr. Sargeant's), 

 where lie bore away for the left, along the brook side to 

 Brookhampton, where, crossing, he left Butler's Marston 

 to the right, and, being hard pressed by the hounds, he 

 deviated to the left, over the Moorland's Farm, and on to 

 Owlington (Mr. Whateley's), where, again hard pressed, he 

 altered his course a little to the right over Mr. Cockbill's 

 farm, and straight over Edge Hill, where it v\as again 

 evident that he was the " stranger," for he passed the 

 earths untried ; and the pace, though the best that could 

 be looked for at the end of the twenty-fourth mile, showed 

 that he was unable to run away froiji the hounds, and they 

 were unable to overtake him. He then again bore to the 

 ]ei"t, dropped into the valley between Arlescote and 

 Warmington, crossing the meadows for Avon Dassett, which 

 he left to the right ; and, continuing his course below the 

 Burton Hills, over the grass country, and Gaydon Hill, he 

 steered straight for Itchington Holt, before entering which 

 cover the hounds were stopped, there being then only the 

 Inmtsman and some half dozen other men up, with horses 

 unequal to facing the deep country before them at the end 

 of a run of thirty miles, almost without a check, and with 

 a fox clearly anxious to give the hounds another day's 

 work fropT Ufton Wood."''" 



The next best day of which there is any record was on 

 ^ I arch 15th, when the meet was at Long Itchington, and 

 Kadbourne Gorse was appointed to be drawn, but as 

 \V'atergall was only a short distance out of the way, it was 

 decided to draw that covert. The hounds found a fox, and 

 at once went away with him, and ran without a check by 

 Worndeighton and Boddington, leaving the gorse on the 

 left, and skirting Lower Boddington up to Warden Hill, 

 where the fox probably went to ground. The duration of 

 this run is recorded as only twenty minutes, but we who 



* Mr. Daniel Serjeant, of Long Itchington, was otit in this run, and helped to 

 stop the hounds at the last. He was a notable sportsman, and hunted nearly up 

 to the time of his death, which occurred on Dec. 7th, 1895, at the age of seventy-nine 

 years. 



