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11^/i. Bytltam House. — Good day. Killed two foxes. 



nth, Newhold Pacey. — Fair day's sport. Killed oue fox. 



l~th. Slnickburgh. — Good gallop over a fiue eomitry by Naptoii, nearly to 

 Southaia. with a kill. 



ISth, Tysoe Village.— nun from Edge Hill to Pillertou. with a kill. 



I*l6'/, Goldicote House. — Very hard day. Found in Alveston Pastures; 

 ran to Wellesbourne Wood, Sniatehley Brake into Walton, changed foxes. 

 Found a fresh fox at Walton Wood, ran to Bowshot ; lost him ; Avent home. 



2'lnd, Mitford Bridge. — Very good day. very liai-d one ; did not get home 

 till late. 



24:th, TJfton Wood. — Unsatisfactory day ; ought to have had a good run. 

 Got well away from Ufton ; after going for several fields, pointing to Lad- 

 l)roke, our fox got headed by a shooting party; went back into Ufton Wood, 

 where we hunted him a long time with a poor scent ; gave him up. Found a 

 fox in a small covert near Ufton, ran twenty minutes, killed him in 

 some buildings. 



2Qth, Snitterfield. — We had a good run to Claverdon. Lost him; this 

 was a capital gallop. 



Z\st, Wellesbourne. — Very good day. Killed one fox. 



January bth, 1869, Mitford Bridge. — We had two good mms. Only wanted 

 a kill to make it perfection. 



From Sir C. Mordaimt's diary : 



On January 5th I went to hunt at Mitford Bridge, and was accompanied 

 l)y the late Colonel Edward Chaplin, of the Coldstream Guards. The 

 master was not out, and no one else except ourselves came out all day. There 

 was sufficient frost to prevent hunting till twelve o'clock, at which time the 

 hounds were put into Wolford Wood, and Bol) Worrall got them away veiy 

 soon with a fox. They ran first in the direction of Batsford, but turned to 

 the right, and continued down the Vale between Aston Hailes and Dunsdeu; 

 and, leaving Todenham on the left, ran nearly to the Golden Cross, and from 

 thence back again to Wolford Wood. This run lasted an hour and a quarter, 

 nearly all over a grass country, aiul most of it was fast. In Wolford Wood 

 several fresh foxes were on foot, and one of these soon ci'ossed the high road 

 into the spinney on the other side of it. Bob Worrall, thinking that the fox 

 might be the luuited one, placed his two whippers-in at intervals round the 

 spiimey, and remained himself at another place, and asked lis to assist him at 

 two other places. At this time it began to rain hard, l)ut the scent was as 

 good as tjefore, and the fox, after going several times round the spinney, 

 went away close by Hastings, the first Avhip. As we galloped away 

 with the hoimds close to the fox's brush, I heard Bob Worrall say, 

 ■■ Hastings, you've done very wrong." He answered, " How could I help 

 it ? It's a fresh fox." The pack ran without the slightest check nearly to 

 Barton Grove, and thence between Little Compton and Chasleton to Salford 

 Osiers, six miles as the crow Hies, and seven miles as they ran, nearly 

 straight, in thirty-five minutes. When the osier bed was reached it was 

 beginning to get dark, and Bob Worrall A-iewed what lie thought was the 

 hunted fox going aAvay from the covert; but this turned out to be a small, 

 rough sheepdog Avith a long tail, and Bob got his hounds away, and laid them 

 on to the dog, and by the time he had found out his mistake it was too 

 late to kill the hunted fox. and so this splendid day's sport ended without 



