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only slow hunting, and did not get up to him at 

 Mormon Wood. Trotted off and found a brace of 

 foxes in S. White's Plantation near Cottam. Raced 

 to Fenton Gorse Boundary Fence, then to his right 

 down to the Trent and on to Cottam Willows. 

 Then hunted him on up to Leverton, over a good 

 line to Rampton, and on down to the Torksey 

 Willows. Got up to him here and raced away 

 back by the Little Willows on to Barley's Willows, 

 and ran into him near Laneham. A very good 

 hour and fifty minutes. Mixed pack, 15 1 couples ; 

 cold north-east wind. 



March 20th, 1888.— Met at Gateford. Found 

 in Anston Stones and ran about, but no good. 

 Found, after drawing WalHngwells blank, in Lang- 

 old Holt. Raced merrily away by the Red 

 Quarries and Cross Plantation ; then left Anston 

 and Anston Church close on his right, away over 

 the railway, through the Thorpe Woods up to 

 Scratta and to Steetly Bar. Then on by Harness 

 Grove to Sloswick and Welbeck Park and into 

 the Manor Hills, where I stopped them. A fine 

 run, but it was unlucky that nobody ever saw the 

 fox after Thorpe Village, to give the hounds a Hft. 

 Mixed pack, 17 J couples ; cold north-east wind. 



The hounds finished hunting on April 12th, 

 after a good season's sport, the hounds having 

 killed 34J brace of foxes and run 30 brace to 

 ground. This season I made a change with 

 regard to the earth stoppers and keepers, as I 



