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can always go the right side first, or kill every fox 

 he hunts. 



" Geldart is here this winter, and has taken 

 Mousley's house at Hanuton, and we have a hunter 

 at Stretton, one Consan. I think he appears to be a 

 good party. I do not think they will get a pack of 

 hounds tog-ether in Leicestershire this winter,^ if at 

 all — no one will like to undertake it. We have not 

 had much sport, if any. Meynell Ingram's or 

 Lowndes's hound list I have not seen. I will for- 

 ward one when I get them. Good luck to you and 

 good sport. You should have stayed here until you 

 returned to Fife. 



" With my kind regards to Mrs, Thomson, 

 " Believe me, 



'' Yours sincerely, 



''G. Moore." 



On 23rd December, 1856, I wrote to George 

 Moore : — 



" I have had such a run last Tuesday as I never 

 saw before, so have taken a large sheet of paper to 

 tell you all about it, and have, moreover, made a 

 map for your benefit as you know the country, 



" Met at Charndon Common ; sharpish air, but 

 fine still morning ; twenty couple white hounds, 

 my pack. Found two or three foxes in Charndon 

 Wood, and I intended as soon as we had made a 

 row in the wood to cut away to the end where a fox 



^ After Sir R. Sutton's death Frank Sutton and Mr. Clowes got a 

 pack of hounds together, with old Tom Day as huntsman, and hunted 

 the Quorn country the rest of the season. 



