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the left, over Boddington Hill, and ran into him at 

 Wormleiorhton. As stout a fox as ever ran before 

 hounds. They ran him for about an hour and thirty-hve 

 minutes, and very often they were only a field behind 

 him. A most capital run, a fine line of country, and this 

 gallant Fox never entered a single covert from find to 

 finish. A clinking good day's sport. I think this as fine 

 a run as we have had this season. I rode Pillbox and 

 Brown Stout. 18^ couple, dog pack." 



April 8th. — Cowper's Oak. A bad scent. Got Susaa 

 killed by the train, no sport, the last day of the season. 



1880-81. 



1880. Aug. 24th. — Began cub-hunting, hunted forty 

 days, killed twenty-three and half brace of foxes. 



Nov. 8th. — Stowe-Nine-Churches. Found several 

 foxes, killed one in the wood, away with one up 

 to the dykes to ground. Found another in Snorscombe 

 Mill Spinney, killed at Moreton Pinkney, a capital fifty 

 minutes. Found in Seawell, a good ring, killed him in 

 Farthingstone. 



Dec. 3rd. — Brackley. Found in the gorse, away at 

 once very fast to Radstone without a check, got headed 

 back a field, but hit him off at once through Bartlett's 

 New Covert, Stratford Hill, to Buckingham, to the right 

 over Duke of Buckingham's Avenue to Chackmore, and 

 ran into him near the osier-bed. Went back and drew 

 Westbury Wild, found and killed the fox in Whistley 

 after a good fifty minutes. 



" 1 88 1. Feb. 4th. — Astwell Mill. Found in Plumpton 

 W^ood, away over the grass fields, past Oakley Bank, 

 Greens Park, and Wappenham Station, to Bucknells 

 without dwelling a moment ; they ran the ridings, and 

 away to Handley Farm, past Kingthorn Wood to- 



