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near the house, without finding. A fox was then found at 

 Weston Wood, near Cubhington, and he went away with as 

 good a cry of hounds, and good a scent, as any Sportsman 

 could possibly desire ; we ran him for one hovir and 20 

 minutes, when he went to ground nearly in view of the 

 hounds. On drawing Waveley Wood, afterwards, we soon 

 f(jund another fox, and after hanging some time in cover, 

 he ran over Stoneleigh Park to Baginton, and saved his life 

 by taking to main earth. This run lasted three quarters of 

 of an hour. 1 



Feb. 21. — We met at Chelmsley Wood, and found a 

 brace of foxes ; after taking a turn or two in the cover, one 

 went away for the Solihidl woods, but was headed, and 

 came back by Mr. Spooner's house. He then passed 

 through Hampton Coppice, pointing for Barker's Coppice, 

 and after a run of one hour and three quarters, he was lost 

 the scent dying away. In drawing Mr. York's woods we 

 found three foxes ; we ran one over his earths, near to the 

 decoy in Coleshill Park, then over the brook near the 

 bridge into Chelmsley Wood, over the earths, through the 

 cover, and over Coleshill Heath, near to Mr. Wedge's. 

 Here he was headed back to School Rough, where we had 

 him among the hounds ; he broke away, and pointed for 

 Mr. Spooner's, but he was so much beaten that he was 

 obliged to return, and we killed him near School Rough, 

 after a run of an hour and a quarter. 



Feb. 25. — This morning we met at Combe Abbey, and 

 found a brace of foxes in High Wood. After running one 



1 Jack Barrow and Jack Jones dhunk — both put in the black 

 book! 



