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foxes ; ran one towards Hillmorton, but tiinied to the left, and ran to ground 

 close to the Water Tower at Rugby, after a very fine run of an hour and a 

 half. Nine miles from point to point. 



November 17th, Wolford Village — Found in the afternoon at the Golden 

 Cross Gorse, ran very fast towards Shipston, and in a ring back to the covert ; 

 away again, and ran over Tredington Hill, leaving Sliipston on the right, 

 down to the river near Honington. Here the fox stopped on an island, and 

 was very nearly killed, but the hounds could not get out of the river, and he 

 got some start. We ran him as if for Brailes, leaving Idlicote Coverts on the 

 left, but turned back and ran towards Fulready, swung round to the right, 

 and we lost him near Oxhill Covert, after a good run of one hour and a half. 



From Sir C Mordaunt's diary : 



On Deceviber 1st the meet was at Idlicote, and the second fox, which was 

 found at Oxhill Covert, proved to be a stoixt wild one. He went away in the 

 direction of Pillerton, thence he turned to the right, neaiiy back to the 

 covert, left Oxhill Yillage to the right, and passed close to Ujiper Tysoe, and 

 then turned right-handed over the Tysoe Bottom at a wide place, which 

 prevented a good many from seeing more of the run. The houncls turned up 

 the hill near Epwell White House, having up to this point run at first class 

 pace for forty minutes, over grass. They continued at a slower pace by Epwell 

 Warren and over Sibford Heath, and along the valley to tlie right of the 

 Heath to a point beyond Sibford Ferris, where this game fox ran the hounds 

 oiit of scent, after a fine run of an hour and twenty minutes, mostly up wind. 



On December 11th the meet was at Wroxton Abbey, after the Banbury 

 Ball, and a fox was found in the gorse bushes near Hanwell. He crossed the 

 brook at once, and the hounds ran nearly to the high road, and thence along 

 the Vale by Chamberlain's Gorse as if for Mollington ; but turned back 

 under Bourton Village, recrossed the brook, and ran towards Wroxton, tlien 

 bending to the right, kept parallel with the Banbury Road, and by Shotteswell 

 Village, down again into the Vale, through Page's Gorse and Warmingt-on 

 Wood to Mollington Wood ; thence over the liill and Banbury Road, down 

 to the Great Western Railway, and the whole way along the side of the 

 railway by Cropredy, leaving Great Bourton on the right. Just beyond 

 here the fox was viewed close to Chamberlain's Gorse, through which the 

 hounds ran, keeping to the left of Hanwell Village, as if for Wroxton, but 

 turned back and went through Hanwell Spinney. From the time when the 

 fox was viewed, the pace became very fast, and the pack carried a splendid head 

 all along the Vale to Angel's Piece, turned to the loft, and ran through 

 Warmington Wood to Page's Gorse, where the fox was again viewed dead beat 

 just entering the covert, and he got to ground there, after a very fine run of 

 three hours and a half. The fox was bolted by moonlight, but it was too late 

 to kill him. Both the hounds and the master, who had hunted tliem extremely 

 well, much deserved this fox. Tliis ran extended over a great deal of fine 

 country, and during the last half hour, which was at racing pace, very few 

 were witli the hounds. Mr. Bentley, from the Pytchley country, went very 

 well throughout. 



" Eusticus Expectans " in the Field : 



Be the evening of Thursday, Dec. 17, when the hounds disappeared in 

 the fog from Shuckburgh Hill, Lord Willoughby told mc that lie very soon 



