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among- the bounds, and I made sure they woukl liave him, 1)ut tlie lazy vasoal 

 of a keeper had left the main earths open, and lie got in after a run of an 

 hour and three-quarters. Found again at Chesterton Wood, got away, and 

 ran very fast by Lighthorne Fish Pool, turned to the left, and ran by Ewe 

 Field and Kingston, nearly to Itchingtou, and back to Chadslumt ; turned 

 again to the right, and ran to Bishop's Gorse, and gave it up in the dark by 

 Meadow Lane, after running hard for an hour and twenty minutes. 



January 26th, Snitterfield. — Found at Lingey Furlong, ran as if for 

 Grove Park, turned short to the left towards Gannaway, but turned to the 

 right again, and went through Grove Park, and out, leaving Budl)rook 

 Barracks on the left, and went down to Warwick Racecourse. Here a fresh 

 fox jumped up close to the hounds, and they ran him very well along the 

 gi-ass meadows nearly to Morville, and turned back from the Cophjw, and 

 went back to Luscomb Wo(kI and Lingey Furlong, and out at the bottom, but 

 we could make nothing more of it. A good ring of two hours. 



February Srd, Weston House. — No sport in the morning. As we were 

 going to draw Oxliill Gorse a fox jumped up in a field near Kirby, and they 

 ran him hard to Oxhill Covert, out again, and into the \nllage, where he was 

 nearly caught ; out towards Tysoe, and at a merry pace up to Sun Rising 

 Covert, where he saved his life by getting to grouiul, after a very good thirty 

 minutes over a nice country. 



February lOfh, Golden Cross. — Found the third fox at Wolford Wood, 

 and the hounds were soon in three or four lots. At last one lot got away and 

 ran hard by Dunsden, and kept turning to the right along the Stour, but 

 they turned to the left under Todeuham, crossed the river, and ran nearly to 

 Shipston, turned to the left, and went nearly to the Golden Cross, where we 

 caught them, aiul found there were only six and a half couples. On they went 

 l)y Compton Scorpion, by Foxcote Hou.se and Hidcote Quarries, and over 

 Mickleton Tunnel (where I viewed the fox, and should have killed him if 1 

 had had more hounds), through the Tunnel Gorse, and by Norton Park, and 

 down int(j the Vale again. I stopped the lot at Honeybounie as my horse 

 was l)eat, and oidy three of the field were there, whose horses were as tired 

 as mine. Ten miles from point to point ; time, one hour and a half. All the 

 hounds but a couple got home that night. 



February 16th, Compton Verney. — Pouring rain all day. Not much sport 

 in the morning. Found in the afternoon at Pillei-ton Gorse. and ran him 

 hard towards Pillerton, turned to the left over the road, and sunk the lull, 

 oA'er the brook, through Oxhill Covert, and away to Tysoe, left it just on the 

 left, and went up to the Sun Rising, where the scent failed, and we lost near 

 Upton. A very good thirty-five minutes. 



February 2bth, Lower Shuckburgh. — Foimd at the hill twice; ran the 

 second fox towards Flecknoe, but turned to the right, and went as if for 

 Braunston Gorse, over the brook, left the gorse about three fields on the 

 left, and swung round to the right through Staverton Wood, and ran to 

 ground in the main earths in Badby Wood. A good forty minutes. A very 

 large field out, Init the old dog liouuds kept out of their way. 



March hth. Barford. — No sport in the morning. Found a fox in tlio 

 afternoon at Itchington Holt, ran as far as Harbury Heath, turned short to 

 the left, and went across Bunker's Hill hy the Now Coppice, to Kingston ; 

 tlieuce by the Manor House, and leaving Itchington Holt on the left, passed 

 by Bawcutt's Covert on the left, and across tJie Vale to Fenny Compton 



