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scent, leading to Glooston Wood. " I always told 

 you so," says Captain Clerk (Tailby had been in it 

 the day before). Through the wood like bells, and 

 away on the other side towards Skeffington. Allan 

 Young holloaed them away. On coming out of the 

 wood I had a shoe off, and Walter de Winton changed 

 horses with me. There is a nasty deep bottom at 

 the end of the field, where Custance got his horse 

 fast ; my horse, or rather Walter de Winton's, refused 

 it, and Edghill ^ scrambled in. Just then I heard Dick 

 whistle, and found him on the other side on " Rain- 

 bow ". I jumped off, got over the rails, and set sail 

 all right again. Some men rabbiting had turned the 

 fox half a field to the left, and they ran clean away 

 from us again. John Chaplin and another were before 

 me, but kept too far to the left. I got along the 

 road to Godeby with Colonel Mayou, and caught 

 them at the corner of the road, and then went on 

 with them alone to Keythorpe Wood. Here they 

 checked a moment in the wood, or at least did not 

 speak. I got on to the middle ride, and saw " Singer," 

 " Streamer" and " Ferryman" cross, but not on the 

 line ; however, they hit it off again, and went away 

 towards Ramshead, I grot the rest after them, and 

 had eleven couple on — -" Fanny " the last hound out. 

 Dick and Tom both there. Three fields further on 

 the fox tried the earth, where Tailby had run to 

 ground on the previous Tuesday, and dug out. I 

 looked at my watch ; one hour and fifty minutes, and, 

 I think, about eighteen miles, and hounds had only 



' Edghill, 17th Lancers. Killed in the Zulu War. 



