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turn to the left, and were with them afterwards ; whilst 

 Messrs. Clay, Rainsford, Goodman, Fawcett, and Ferguson 

 were the first to catch them at the cheek, and w^ere up at 

 the finish. The field* in the morning- was considerably 

 over a hundred. The Rev. Walter Verney saw the cream 

 of the run up to Napton on a young- horse (a four year old,t 

 I am informed). 



Lord Willoughl)y de Broke's diary : 



December 12t]i, Broughton Castle. — Got away close to a fox from 

 Gullivov's Osiers, ran nearly to Claydou Hill, and l)ack l)y Shutford, and 

 nearly to Slienington, and then nearly to Broom Hill Gorse, then back to 

 Shutford Spinneys, and nearly to Shenington again, and killed him in the 

 Shutford and Upton road, after a good run of nearly two hours. 



December 24-tJi, Weston Sands. — Found at Pehworth, got away at once, 

 and they settled down as if they meant running ; went liy Dorsington, and 

 on for Long Marston, and then nearly to Quintou, and up to Meon Hill; just 

 skirted the base of it, and went up to Miekleton Wood, through it. and sunk 

 the Vale again as if lie meant to go back to Peljworth, turned to the riglit by 

 Norton Hall, and ran a ring round Miokleton Village, and up to Miekleton 

 Wood, where the pack ran into their fox, after running for an hour and a 

 quarter without a check. Beadsman did very well.^ 



From the Leaminyton Spa Co/frier : 



On Friday. December 26, it had attempted all morning to snow, but in a 



* When Captain Riddell, who did uot get away with the hounds, got home to 

 Bragborough, Lady Evelyn Riddell congratulated him on such a splendid run. " Run," 

 he said, " where to?" " Well, Lord Willoughby has been here with the hounds," was 

 the reply, "and had some lunch, and gruel for the horses." I heard that the keen 

 captain, and a keener never crossed Northamptonshire, never said a word all the evening 

 — W. R. V. 



t My brown mare Bestshot, by Locksley, dam by Makehaste. I believe she was only 

 a three-year-old then. She went wrong in her feet, and I had to keep her in a field 

 with a long coat on, and give her beans. The last time I rode her Mr. Willie Low's 

 second horseman brought her to me at Ladbroke, and fell off in the field just as the fox 

 went away. I rode up and said, " All right, don't get on again." We ran for twenty- 

 five minutes as hard as we could split, and killed in a pigatye at Wormleighton Hill. 

 She only had one fall in her short but merry hunting life of only four seasons. You 

 could uot throw her down if you tied her legs together, 1 picketed her once, when 

 camped out with the yeomanry in Ragley Park in the Jubilee year, and she broke the 

 new Government picket ropes fore and aft like carrots, and it took the hangers on of the 

 regiment two hours to catch her. — W. R. V. 



X Cecil (Cornelius Tongue) has a very amusing account on p. 2()8, 1854 Ed., of a day 

 he had with Mr. Pinches, the master of the United Pack, who hunted a portion of the 

 country now claimed by the W'heatland Hunt, about 18.30. The meet was at Willev 

 Park, aud at the master's heels (he hunted the hounds himself) he saw a powerful, 

 good-looking hound, but awfully disfigured by having one ear cropped close to his head, 

 and his stern docked to within three inches of the stump. Mr. Pinches explained that 

 he was the best hound in England, had been given to him by Mr. Joues, of Maesniawr ; 

 and that he was docked and had his ear cut off that he might not be .stolen. He would 

 have made a curious figure on the Peterborough benches. 



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