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tlirough it. and out into the villago, back ao-ain through tin's wood, and out by 

 Stoney Thorpe, and back l)y Duppcr's Bridg-e. and h)st near the liineworks; 

 tlio first forty minutes very o-ood. Found ag-ain in Itdiington Holt a brace, 

 and the pack divided ; the main body ran very nicely to Chesterton Wood, by 

 Lighthorne Village, Bishop's Gorse. Pool Fields Gorse, and to Chadshiuit. 

 Near the park wall a fresh fox got up, and they ran him back to Itchiiigton 

 Holt, wdiere we were joined by the rest of the jjack, who had run a ring 

 round l)y Bawcutt's Covert, Gaydon Hill, and back. Stopped them as the 

 horses were beat. 



February Sth, The Kennels. — Found at Watt's Gorse, got away close to 

 the fox. and ran him very well over the Kineton ami Banbury road by 

 Chadshunt, Pool Fields Osiers. Compton Verney to ground, almost in view, 

 in Eight Men's Marth, after a good forty minutes. Found in the Slinket, ran 

 through Hitchcock's. Walton Wood, Brickkiln Gorse, and on towards 

 Idlieote ; but turned to the right, and ran through Eatington Park, 

 Eatiugton Grove, Rough Hill, and down to Hounds Hill Coppice. The fox 

 turned away from the wire, and went back, and was killed ir. Knaven Hill 

 after an hour's run. 



February 1-ith, TJfton Wood. — Found at Debdale. got away close to the 

 fox, and ran him very pretty by L(mg Itchiiigton. over the riA'er. and nearly to 

 Hunningham Coppice; l)oreto the left, and passed Print Hill on the left, and 

 ran him into a drain under a gateway close to Oifchurch Osiers in the North 

 Warwickshire country ; poked liim out with a pole, and killed him. 



I remember staying in Sussex at the time when a large 

 portion of the county had just been made into a new 

 hunting country. The first day's hunting took phice on 

 the day when I arrived at my host's house. On my 

 asking him what sport they had been having, he replied : 

 " We've had a tremendous run of fifteen miles from point 

 to point, and ran to groimd in a drain in the neigh- 

 bouring hunt of Surrey." I said, " That's capital, all 

 except that the fox was not killed." I do not think 

 he had hunted much before that day, for he at once 

 replied, " Oh ! but he was killed ; ire dug hiin out and 

 Inlled hini.—C. M. 



February 26i/j, Wolford Village. — Found at Wolford Wood, got away at 

 once, and ran very well by Dunsden, Todenham, and through Blakeinore 

 Coppice, and liy Blockley Station to Northwick Park, and on to Norcomb 

 Wood, where the hounds divided, and there were several foxes on foot ; got 

 away, after running round the park and wood, with sixteen couples, and ran 

 hard back to Wolford Wood, through it. and away for Weston, turned to the 

 right, and I stopped them, pointing for Rollwright Cotmibs. Jack's horse 

 was beat, and we luid only twelve couples with us, as the sixteen couples had 

 divided again in Wolford Wood. We had been running hard for four hours. 

 The three and a half couples who left us at Norcomb Wood ran their fox 



