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Tile Hill, where being headed by some acorn gatherers, he 

 turned short back, and was given up. Very hard running 

 for one hour. 



Oct. 22. — We found a brace of foxes at Tile Hill ; one 

 of them went gallantly away by AUesley, and across the 

 turnpike road towards Corley Wood ; then turned to the 

 left over Corley Moor, through Birchley Hays, Waterfields 

 Wood, and Close Wood, and on for Lord Aylesford's 

 Park. Being headed back through Chantry Wood, and 

 Meriden Shafts, he took up to Birchley Hays again, back 

 through the Shafts to Millesant's Wood, and on to Tile Hill. 

 Here the fox was turned short back, and rain coming on he 

 was lost. This run lasted three hours and a half. Long 

 Meadow Wood was afterwards drawn, blank. The day was 

 very stormy and bad. 



Oct. 23. — Hampton Coppice was the place of meet, 

 and, after a short interval, the hounds hit upon a fox that 

 led us away over the country to Hurdle Hall, over the bog 

 at Thornborough to TrufFmore ; and then up to Chelmsley 

 Wood. Having gone right through that cover, he took 

 across the river to Kingshurst, where, with the hounds close 

 to him in the same field, he went to ground. Very hard 

 running for three quarters of an hour.— Drew York's Wood 

 and found at the millpool tail ; the fox went off to Radley 

 Moor, to Yardley village, and then bore away to the little 

 town of Sheldon, where the hounds ran into him near to 

 that place. A run of an hour and a half, very quick to 

 Yardley, and afterwards good hunting. Most of the pack 

 viewed the fox into the pit in the open ground. 



Oct. 26. — Hunted at Stoneleigh Abbey, and found a 

 brace of foxes immediately on the hounds being thrown into 

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