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fields to tlie right, t-rossod the Soutliaiu Road, and went straig'ht towards Cliapcl 

 Ascote. Mr. Green, hearing the liounds when lie was in the Watergall Lane, 

 had joined them again, but his horse was dead l)eat, and he left him at Cliapel 

 Ascote Farm, and continued on the line of the hounds on a butcher's pony, 

 which he hired at that place. His horse, a splendid hnnter, was brought next 

 day to Alveston, where he died. From Chapel Ascote the pack ran as if for 

 Lad])roke Grorse, but turned to the right, and came to a check in a steam 

 ploughed field. Mr. Green, not long afterwards, joined me, and I tried in 

 vain, with his assistance, to hold the hounds forward. After a quarter of an 

 hour, just as we wei'e about to get them together to tak(^ them home, the 

 master canu^ up, and with him Mr. Brand and Jack Boore, the first w]u[). 

 Lord AVilloughby at once held the pack forward, and they hit the line oli', and 



after running a few fields further they killed this gallant fox in the open 

 under Hodnell Hill, two fields from Ladbroke Gorse, which he failed to 

 reach. His head is at Hodnell Farm, and his l)rush, given to me by the 

 master, is in the hall at Walton. 



This famous run lasted two hours and twenty minutes, 

 including the check of a quarter of an hour near the finish, 

 and although less than ten miles at the furthest point,* it 

 extended over quite twenty-live miles of the cream of the 



* This distance from the point wliere the hounds turned to the right before 

 reaching the Banbury and Kineton road to Hodnell is nine miles straight. 



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