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Boddiiigtou Hill. Here we got close to this or another fox, and ran him to 

 Priors Marstou, near which place we lost him. Rosy made a good hit 

 down the road, and when she got on the grass again and was sure of it, she 

 threw her tongue well. Relish did a lot of good work. Rode Bona and 

 Banshee. 



December 2mh, Thehforcl—Fomid at Fir Tree Hill, ran towards VTelles- 

 hoixrne, turned to the left, and went over the Newliold Pacey Brook as if for 

 Ashorne, recrossed the brook by Newbold Pacey House, and ran at a great 

 pace, leaving Moreton Morrell to the left, to Moreton Wood. Through that 

 and Hell* Hole, Greenhouse Coppice, and the Slinket to Bath Hill. Time, 

 twenty-eight minutes ; very pretty. Hunted the line back at a redixced 

 pace nearly the same way we came, and ran to ground under the ice- 

 house at Newbold Pacey. Ran from Oakley to Chesterton Wood, and lost. 

 Found late at Itchington, and could not get the fox to leave, so left him at 

 dark. 



January 2nd. 1880, Shutford. — Found at Gulliver's Osiers, and lost the 

 first fox near Broughton. Found at Harman's Gorse ; ran for two hours to 

 Wiggington, and a wide ring, and at last killed in Bloxham Yillage, after a 

 good hunting run. A hard day. Bulwark, the second whip's horse, died the 

 next day. Rode Blackwater and Bona. 



Januar]! 5th. Burton Toll Bar. — Lots of foxes on the Burton Hills. Ran 

 the first to ground below Avon Dassett, and killed two others ; ran the third 

 through Harliage's as if for Wormleighton, but he turned to the right on 

 reaching the Banlrary Road, and ran by Farnborough to MoUington Wood. 

 Here the hounds got close to the fox, and raced him over the Vale towards 

 Avon Dassett, turned to the left, swung round Warmingtoii "Village, up the 

 liill, leaving Arlescote to the right, and ran to groimd in the Yale between 

 Hornton and Ratley, after a very good hour and ten minutes. Rode BoAvman 

 and Banshee. Rival and her sister Rosy are doing A^ery well. 



Januarij 8th, ITfton Wood. — Found in Debdale, and away directly over the 

 Learn, and right into Leicester's Piece without a check ; fox headed on the 

 other side Ijy some boys, and turned back. The hounds got away close to 

 him, and raced him down to the Leain again, through it, and ran right into 

 him one field from Debdale. The field all sto^jped by the river, and no one 

 came up for a quarter of an hour. Found again at Debdale, and ran the next 

 fox for Leicester's Piece again, right through it, and away as if for Bunker's 

 Hill, turned to the left, and ran iip to the Dunchurch Road ; the homids ran 

 parallel to it for a mile and a half, and pointed as if for Frankton Wood, but 

 turned to the left again, and pointed straight for Leicester's Piece. The fox 

 would doubtless have entered it, but the North Warwickshire were drawing 

 it, and he heard them, and turiu'd to the right, and went into a small drain 



* We have often been asked why " Hell Hole," a well knowai covert in the Hunt, is 

 called by that name. " Hell" is an old Teutonic word from " Hele " or " He Ian," 

 meaning any covered or retired place. In early English literature it was used as the 

 "hole" into which tailors threw shreds, &e., or blacksmiths threw old nails, &c. ; it 

 was also the retired spot to which, in a popular village game called " barley tree," a 

 lad led a lass to exact the forfeit of a kiss (.set' " Salvator Mundi," by the Rev. S. 

 Cox. Edition of 1877, page 55). Consequently the word is used throughout England 

 in this sense; for retired places frequented l)y foxes, e.g.. Hell Hole, Hell Meadows, 

 Hell Brake, Hell Kitchen, and " Hell," the name of a few retired cottages in Wroxall 

 Parish, at the back of Honilv Boot.— Rev. H. J. Torre. 



