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him and followed him to Radway, where he was abandoned. 

 This was a run of an hour. — The hounds afterwards chop- 

 ped a fox in Pillertcm Gorse. 1 



Nov. 0,2. — This day we drew all the woods at Stonc- 

 leigh, without finding a single fox. 



Nov. 23. — Met at Dunchurch, and drew Alloalcs, and 

 all Lord John Scott's covers, blank. At length we found 

 a fox in one of Captain Irbert's coverts, that was off in an 

 instant for Rugby, where we ran him to ground. The run 

 lasted 35 minutes. '2 



There was no scent for a week from this time ; and 

 although the hounds met, agreeably to the fixtures, they 

 could not hunt. 



Nov. 30. — Met at Bourton, and after drawing Bestow's 

 Piece blank, found, shortly afterwards, at Debdale ; we ran 

 our fox some time in cover, and chopped him. Found again 

 in the cover, when reynard went straight to Birdingbury, 

 the seat of Sir T, BiDDULrn, and then on to Bourton. Here 

 he turned short back to Debdale, through the covert, and 

 on for Long Itchington. Leaving that village to the left, he 



1 We were afterwards informed that tlie fox which we pave up at 

 Radway was killed, in an unsportsmanlike manner, by the farmer on 

 whose ground he had been left. He might have been satisfied, we 

 think, with digging out the fox, and driving him off his ground by a 

 cur dog. By these means he would have got rid of the nuisance, and 

 saved his credit. The Agriculturists of Warwickshire, much to their 

 honor, adopt a very different IJne of conduct under similar circum- 

 stances. 



2 That gallant Sportsman, Captain Ibbert, lost a horse to-day. 



