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hard to Castle Hill Wood, Wellham, Retford, down 

 all over the steeple-chase course to Tilne and up to 

 BoUam. Here got up to our fox, or a fresh one, 

 and ran very hard to Hayton by Wheatley, round 

 the Caddows, where I had to stop the hounds late 

 from Gringley Wood. Mixed pack, 20 couples. 



January 28th, 1900. — The squadron from the 

 Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry sailed for the war in 

 South Africa, from Liverpool, in the Winifredian. 



February 20th, 1900. — A curious accident hap- 

 pened to one of my hounds. Hunting on Barnby 

 Moor, Alice fell into a dry well in a hedgerow by 

 Ranby Farm. On Tuesday, February 27th, a week 

 afterwards, a ploughman, going to his work, 

 thought he heard a whine. He looked down the 

 well, saw the hound, and got her up alive. A week 

 afterwards she was hunting as well as ever. 



March 8th, 1900. — Met at Firbeck. Found in 

 the pleasure ground, ran a ring by Park Hill and 

 Folds Wood, then away by Lingodell and Lewell, 

 Fords Wood, to ground under the road near Old- 

 cotes. Bolted him and killed by Folds Farm. Then 

 found in Pond Head, and ran away round by Tick- 

 hill, and lost by Styrrup, where I think he got to 

 ground. Dogs, 19 couples. 



March 23rd, 1900. — Met at Marnham. Drew 

 Grassthorpe Willows, Marnham, Fledbro' Gorse, 

 Babbington Springs, and East Markham all blank. 

 Bolted a fox out of the stick heap, away at a racing 

 pace by Tuxford, where we were bothered by the 



