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Found again at the Bull and Butcher Wood, when our 

 fox took straight away to Debdale, pointing for Stockton 

 earths ; he afterwards t'lrned to the left, and went over the 

 hill at Leamington Hastings, and right through Thurlaston 

 village. Leaving Dunchurch on the left, he crossed the 

 Londoii road, and ran through Barby Wood. He then left 

 Brauuston Cleeves on the right, and was at length run into 

 and killed between Ashby Salloway and Crick. 



BY SPANK-AWAY. 



MEET ALVESTON PASTURES. 



The first time I saw Mr. Hay in the field, at the 

 head of these hoimds, the meet was at Alveston Pastures, 

 where a great number of Sportsmen had assembled. 



The hounds were put in at the top of the cover, as 

 usual, and after trying nearly the whole of it, at the very 

 last part, we had the unexpected but welcome notice by the 

 Tallyho given, that a fox was away. The wind was tremen- 

 duously high the whole of the morning, and those gentlemen 

 who remained in the field at the top of the covert could not 

 hear the glad summons, and were unluckily thrown out 

 altogether. 



Away went reynard at a slashing pace ; the hounds 

 ran him in view across the first field or two, and those 

 gentlemen who started with the pack were obliged to go 

 their best pace to live with them at all. He made his first 

 point for the oziers, at Alveston, but on being headed he 

 took a southernly direction, crossed Mr. Gibbs's Hill Farm, 

 and then took off in a straight line for the top of Clifford, 

 where he crossed the Stnur. Mr. Hay, being unacquainted 

 with the country, followed ; his stirrup-leather came off. 



