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Tlirockmorton, Mr. Jjoiigmaii, and Sir iiicliard. That 

 was bad luck in one way. Sir Charles Mordaunt was 

 very kind to me when I was in Warwickshire. I met 

 him one day at Eug-by, and he said to me, ' We used 

 to have as good runs in your time, Bob, as any time 

 I remember.' 



" The day Mr. Campbell, of Monzies, was buried, Mr. 

 Lucy was not out, of course. We had a crust and a sup at 

 Mr. Crowdey's at Billesley Hall, and going down the road to 

 draw, I met a chap in a cart. He said, ' There's a most 

 beautiful fox just gone in there, master.' I remember 

 Mr. (jreorge Hawkes, of Talton, was out. Out comes the 

 beautiful fox, such a red colour, and such a white tag to 

 his brush ; he went to the right at first, through Withy- 

 combe towards Little Alne, then swung left-handed, and 

 went through a clump between Oversley Wood and Red Hill ; 

 then he bore right-handed into Oversley Wood, and ran 

 the whole length of the wood. I saw him cross the main 

 ride in the far distance, and caught the white tag on his 

 brush. We went away to the left by that Castle place, 

 and swung to the right, over the river and Ragley Park 

 into Weethley Wood ; ran the whole length of the wood 

 into Bevington Waste, and then round to the right. I 

 believe the Worcestershire were then running in the 

 Lenches. I could see the tracks and trampling of horse 

 hoofs, and Mr. Hughes, of Broom, told me they had met 

 at Radford Grate. The fox was headed about here, and 

 crossed the Worcester Road. T remember I jumped a funny 

 place over a big wide ditch out of the road, on Multum-in- 

 Parvo, a good little horse as ever was. From here we went 

 through a good big wood, called Grrafton Wood, and I saw 

 some cows running and a man with a soft hat swinging it 

 and holloaing. I nicked along over two fields to where they 

 had checked, and I saw the fox two fields away. I was 

 just pulling the band off a gate into a lane, when the fox 

 went past down this gravelly, swilly lane. I laid the 

 hounds on, and they were after him, and sent him down 

 this lane, and through a rickyard, and ran into him in the 



