COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 357 



2nd February, 1866. 



"Sir,— 



" The accounts of the Waterloo Run have 

 been so many and so various that your readers must 

 be puzzled to know the real state of the case, and 

 as ' Bailey ' is not quite correct, I venture to send 

 you what I believe to be the leading facts in the 

 day's sport. 



" The hounds found their first fox in Loatland 

 Wood, and ran in and out of covert for one hour 

 and five minutes, and ran hard to ground at Arthing- 

 worth. They found again in Waterloo Gorse, at 

 a quarter to two o'clock. The time from Waterloo 

 to the earths at Keythorpe was one hour and fifty 

 minutes. The total time was three hours and forty- 

 five minutes ; but we had a long check, twenty or 

 twenty-five minutes, at the windmill at Medbourne, 

 and hunted on slowly afterwards. I take the 

 distance to be — from Waterloo to Kelmarsh, three 

 miles ; Kelmarsh to Keythorpe, eighteen, as we 

 ran it- — twenty-one miles in one hour and fifty 

 minutes. There were only four ploughed fields 

 in that distance. The hounds were only off the 

 line once, between Kelmarsh and Keythorpe, when 

 I lifted them one field to a holloa at Little Oxendon. 

 As to changing foxes, I don't think we changed at 

 Shipley Spinney. We might have changed when 

 I lifted the hounds at Little Oxendon ; but 1 don't 

 think we did, as it was quite in the same direction 

 our fox was travelling. I think we changed at 

 Keythorpe Wood, as another fox was viewed there 



