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and away directly through Knightley Wood and Burn- 

 fold, leaving Maidford Village on the left, Blakesley 

 on the right, to Foxley, Grub's Coppice on the left, 

 Duncote on the right, Towcester Union on the left, 

 all the back of Towcester, across Easton Neston Park, 

 to Montgomery's house, and killed the fox in Heathen- 

 cote Plantation. An hour and thirty minutes. 18 J 

 •couples of bitches. I rode Stepaway."^ 



"Jan. 14th — Hartwell. Found in the forest. Hounds 

 ran a fox as though they were tied to him for forty 

 minutes, and killed him. Found again in Brayfield 

 Furze, a lame fox; they soon killed him. Found 

 foxes in the Chase, ran there an hour and thirty minutes 

 and killed one in Weston Wood. 



"Jan. igth. — Shoseley. Found in Plane Woods, went 

 with a rattle through Stoke Park to the forest, and 

 killed a fox in Wakefield kitchen garden. A capital 

 run. Found again at Easton Neston Gardens, ran to 

 Roade Cutting and lost him. More than half the hounds 

 went down the cutting and not one hurt. A train 

 luckily pulled up in the cutting to allow the hounds to 

 escape ; a mercy they did escape. 



"Jan. 28th. — Tile House. Found in Mrs. Pilgrim's 

 gardens, away to Tile House, across Stowe Park to Stowe 

 Ridings, through Foxcote Wood, Wicken Spinneys, by 

 Beachampton Ford to Furzen Field, pointing to Bourton 

 Brake, and, running from scent to view, they pulled 

 him down in a grass field before he could reach the Brake. 

 A most capital run. 



" Jan. 30th. — At Astwell Mill. Found in Allithorn, 



*Stepaway was bred by Mr. R. Treadwell of Shalstone, a good 

 farmer and fox preserver. He was known to the people in general as 

 ** Rat-tail." As he was such a valuable horse, I name this for the credit 

 of the Hunt, where he was bred and spent his life. — J. M. K. E. 



