1884] 



A FAMOUS BYE DAY. 



105 



Mai'ston and thvoug'h Mickleton Wood witliout dwt'lliiiijf in it a inoiiunit, 

 thence to Hidcote Quarries, near wliicli places we mot tlie Nortli Cotswold 

 liounds, and both packs joined and continued together by Ebrino-ton and 

 again into the VaL\ They ran togetlier for twenty uiinutes, after whidi time 

 tlie North Cotswohl were coniph'tely ont})aeed l)y the Warwioksliire, and the 

 List tinu^ I saw the master. Mr. Rusliout, he was capping on one couple of liis 

 hounds wliich alone Avere left out of his pack. The Warwicksliire ran on l)y 

 Paxford, Blakemore Covert, and over the river Stour near Aston, and thence 

 nearly to Moretou-in-Marsh, where they turned to the riglit and ran into the? 

 laurels in the garden at Seziugcote House close to the fox, but never hit his 

 line off again, although ho cannot have been far off. This very fine run was 

 thirteen miles as the crow flies, and oidy the master, Mr. Green, Mr. George 

 Smith, of Weston Sands, the second whip, and C. Mordaunt saw the finish. 

 The first forty-five minutes was without a check, and the entire run was two 

 hours and ten minutes. 



Mr. George Smith's diary also contains an account of 

 tliis great run. Cletting up the Hill at Mickleton, after 

 crossing the Vale, must have been something like 



GOING UP BKAILES HILL. 



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