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the run became a procession, making its way by the gates, 

 but this in no way detracts from its value from the hounds' 

 point of view. The chase continued between East Norton 

 and Allexton, and by Fear Farm towards HaUaton and 

 Horninghold Cottage Farm, and by Bolt Farm to Stocker- 

 ston Wood, and the fox went to ground at Bolt Wood. 

 The entire distance, traced by the Ordnance map, is given 

 b}^ the writer of this run in the Field as :27i miles as 

 hounds ran, and 141 from point to point, in two hours 

 and six minutes* from the time hounds left Barkby Holt. 



On the following day a butcher from Uppingham told 

 Lord Lonsdale that he had found a fox, which he had 

 brought with him, dead outside a drain near Hallaton, 

 where he had seen three hounds stop. 



A second hunted fox was also found dead in Stockerston 

 Wood. 



During the last ten and a half miles straight (and 

 fifteen as hounds ran), the pack had no assistance from the 

 huntsman, and at the finish every hound was up, and one 

 more besides of Mr. Fernie's hounds, which were running 

 not far off. 



From the Leamington Spa Courier .- 



On Tlmrsdaij, Bee. 20th, the meet was at Harbury Village, with the 

 Aveather remarkably oi^eu for this season of the year. Lord Chesham officiated 

 as master, and amongst the general company were Lady Chesham. Sir Charles 

 Mordaunt, Bart., Colonel and Mrs. Paulet, Captain and Mrs. Osborne, Rev. 

 H. F. Kuightley, Miss Ansell. Captain Allfrey, Messrs. Knott, sen., Pelham, 

 Lowe, Jolliffe, Johnson, Bouch, Lamb, Redding. Tree, and Campliell Blair. 

 The initial draw was at Itchington Holt, and here a good stiff-necked fox 

 was found, and was himtod away, pointing for Chesterton Wood ; bearing, 

 however, to the right, hounds ran down over the deep raihvay cutting at 

 Harljury. Some fourteen couples of the pack stuck to their fox, and only 

 Sir Charles Mordaixut and a few others, with one of the whips, were fortunate 

 enough to get anywhere near them, whilst the rest of the field and the hoimds 

 were out of the run. Hounds continued at a racing pace nearly up to Ufton 

 Village, then to the right and over the In-ook, over Ladbroke Hill, and skirting 

 Ladbroke Gorse, which was left behind on the right, leaving "Welsh Road 



* If this distance of 274 miles as hounds ran is coiTectly stated to have been 

 traversed in two hours and six minutes, the distance run within the time is much the 

 same as that which the Warwickshire hounds traversed in the great run from Pool 

 i ields Osiers. It is not, however, recorded that anyone saw the entire run further than 

 Launde Wood, because no one obtained a second horse, and to say exactly where hounds 

 went after that time appears to me to be only conjecture. — C. M. 



