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Willoughby, Sir C. Mordiuiiit, and others found a bridge a 

 field to the right, whilst Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Chandos Leigh, 

 and Mr. Graham, on the left, came to a cattle ford in their 

 line just as hounds swung round to tliem. And now the 

 pack were well on the grass. Crossing the Sontlunn and 

 Harbury roads, they ran merrily, leaving Ladbroke 

 Village on the left, over the water jump, and rose the liill 

 somewhere near Nunn's Bushes. ()ver the crest of the 

 hill they swept on in the direction of Watergall, and 

 crossed the Welsh Road between Southam and Priors 

 Marston. Every field was grass, and the pace good ; 

 hounds were never lifted. At the Canal under Napton 

 a check ensued for two or three minutes, the fox doubling- 

 back a little, not wishing to face the water. Tliis was a 

 lucky turn for those who had lost ground at the start, as 

 it let in some twenty of the field. The run had been 

 three-quarters of an hour up to Napton, the point being 

 about seven miles. Although the cream was over, there 

 was still much in store, for hounds went on for Shuck- 

 burgh Hills, but they never got into the Shuckl)urgh 

 Coverts ; skirting along the bottom, which runs at the 

 foot of the hills, they held on at a fair hokling pace to 

 Catesby. Here difiiculties began : the master's horse 

 tired, the whips were beat some time before, the scent 

 began to fail, wdien information came that the fox was a 

 quarter of an hour ahead, making for Stavertcm Wood. 

 Mr. Manning, of Bury Fields, who had heard the hounds, 

 offered his fresh horse to Lord Willoughby, who gladly 

 accepted it, but the chance of a kill was gone, and the run 

 was really over when the Daventry Boad was crossed, one 

 and a half miles from Daventry. a distance from Ufton 

 Wood of twelve miles straight ; l)ut hounds and horses 

 must have gone at least seventeen miles. Of the field who 

 saw it all through we may mention Lord Willoughby, Sir 

 Charles Mordaunt, Captain Green. ]Mr. Hibbert, Mr. 

 Chandos Leigh, Mr. Caine, Mr. Lutwyclie, Mr. Graham, 

 and three or four others. Mr. Dagleish, Mr. Greig, and 

 Mr. Wilson got to the hounds soon after they started by a 



