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Gorse. Away leaving Adstone village on the right, 

 through Plumpton Wood, Gomeral's Holt, Weston 

 Village and Helmdon on the left, and Halse Coppice 

 on the right, to Radstone ; was headed and ran, 

 leaving Whistley Wood on the right, to Falcote, 

 back pointing for Syresham, through Whistley Wood, 

 heading for Astwell Mill, leaving Falcote Village just on 

 the right, and hounds ran into him in a grass field between 

 Whitby and Radstone. Time, 2 hours and 20 minutes. 

 A most capital run, and the falls were innumerable. I 

 had one, the first I have had this season, off Rataplan. 

 We found another fox in Weedon Bushes, hounds ran 

 him to Wappenham, back to the brook, to ground. 

 Gave it up. I rode Rataplan and Brocklesby. 18 

 couples dog pack : they worked well. 



Feb. 15th. — Wakefield Lawn. Got on the line of a 

 fox from Fire Furze, but he had been gone too long ; so 

 we went to Colonel FitzRoy's covert at Grafton, away 

 at a killing pace, leaving Bozenham Mill on the left, 

 along the meadows, over the river, straight over the 

 railway, leaving Castlethorpe on the right, bore to 

 the left to Hanslope, through Tattle End, Gayhurst 

 Wood, to Linford Wood, back through Gayhurst 

 Wood, Stoke Park, to Salcey, to ground under the 

 road ; killed him. Found another in Ashton Ash- 

 bed, ran a sharp ring by Bozenham Mill, Ashton, 

 and lost him near the railroad. Found again in Grafton 

 Park, ran a very fast ring by Alderton Meadows, leaving 

 the village on the left, and lost him at Grafton. I rode 

 Rifleman, jumped the brook under Grafton, which stopped 

 the whole field, and they could not get through the ford ; 

 so I had it all to myself, to Hanslope. 



"Feb. 17th. — Met at Radstone. Found several foxes 

 in Brackley Gorse, got away at a rattling pace. They 



