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James Montgomery. Either the severity of the pace or 

 else the country being, as usual, very blind at this time, 

 caused the field entirely to lose the hounds. Lord 

 Mountgarret followed on their line to Stoney Thorpe, but 

 never caught them. Mr. James Montgomery says that 

 when they were in a large grass field near Napton, Stevens 

 saw the fox lying down, and that there was only one 

 couple of hounds left, so great had been the pace. Stevens 

 asked ^Ir. Montgomery to watch the fox while he went 

 back to try and collect more hounds. Mr. Montgomery 

 rode round the fox in a circle, and whenever he came any 

 nearer than a certain distance the fox, without getting up, 

 snapped his teeth at him. Stevens eventually brought uj) 

 a sufficient number of hounds to kill this gallant fox. 

 The distance from Berricote Wood to the point where 

 he was killed, between Napton and Priors Hardwick, 

 is fifteen miles, and the hounds could not have run less 

 than twenty miles. Captain Jennings has told us that 

 Mr. James Montgomery on this occasion rode a famous 

 horse called Dusty Bob, and he often talked to him of the 

 run. We remember Mr. Barnard told us' that shortly before 

 Mr. James Montgomery came to hunt at Leamington he 

 w^as at the Duke of Buccleuch's kennels, and the duke's 

 huntsman said to him: " There is a chiel coming into 3'our 

 country who will do ye more harum (harm) than all the 

 railroads and modern invintions." Mr. James Montgomery 

 hunted for many years at Leamington, and died at the age 

 of eight v-seven. He was a very hard and jealous rider, and 

 on one occasion had a serious quarrel with Mr. Campl)ell, 

 of Monzie, who was just such another rider. Each claimed 

 to have had the best of a particular run, and it ended in 

 Mr. Campbell calling out Mr. Montgomery, and the matter 

 was referred to Captain Jennings, who settled it after a 

 good deal of difficulty. 



November llth Edstone Hall. — Drew aiisty & EdgowoU Blank Found 'J 

 or 3 Foxes in Mayswood & ran tlirough Foreiglm & 5 ackers & Pointing to 

 Banliams Ciarved to the right throiigh owls wood & over Barrells Park 

 Pointing to nioekley he was ran by a Dog by Renals Rainge & Lost liim 

 Found again in moekloy wood k ran in the wood 20 minutes & away by 



