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to Austey Wood, where he was headed and went back to 

 Spernal Park ; and we killed him after a run of one hour 

 and 20 minutes. During the time the hounds were eating 

 him, another fox was viewed away ; we hunted him until 

 he got to Austey Wood, when the hounds were stopped, as 

 the meet was to be at that cover on the morning of the 

 following Monday. 



The hounds went from Meriden to Stratford this day, 

 after hunting. 



Thursday, April 1. — ^We met at May's Wood, but did 

 not find until we came to Spernal Park ; we ran a fox for 

 near an hour, when we found it to be a vixen in cub, and 

 the hounds were stopped. Afterwards fo\md a brace of 

 foxes in some covers near to Red Hill, and killed a dog fox 

 when we had ran him an hour. 1 



April 8. — ^To-day we hunted at the covers on the other 

 side of Alcester, and killed a dog fox and two martens. A 

 good day for the hounds. 



April 10. — Hunted at Lench Close ; found a fox and 

 ran him for an hour and a half, when he earthed near to 

 Spernal Park. 



This day ended the season ; and the hounds left the 

 Warwickshire country on Monday the 12th of April, and 

 got to Sundorne the next day. 



The hounds continued to hunt in Shropshire until the 

 1 8th of the month. 



1 The meet at Alcester and Cubbington, on the two preceding 

 hunting days, from the bad state of the weather, afforded us but little 

 sport. 



