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the covert. Found again in the gorse, they ran him to 

 the same drain, he thought he would get back to the 

 gorse, but they killed him before he could do so. Found 

 again at Charwelton osier - bed, away pointing for 

 Fawsley, but they pressed him so hard that he made 

 a ring and they went back to Charwelton as hard as 

 they could go ; away again, leaving Fawsley to the 

 right, over the Banbury road for Sharman's Hill ; short 

 back to within a field of Fawsley Gardens, again he 

 went to the left over the road for Staverton, up to 

 Badby House, across the park, a ring over the country 

 beyond, back through Staverton Wood, into the gardens 

 at Badby House, and we killed in the field adjoining. 

 Found again in Hogstaff, soon killed him. Away with 

 another to Church Wood, through Fawsley into Badby 

 Wood, and stopped them going back to Fawsley. A 

 better scenting day I never remember, no horse could 

 have lived with them with the second fox. I rode 

 Tenbury and Miriam. 



'' 1886. Feb. 17. — My first appearance after my acci- 

 dent (dislocated and fractured shoulder at Farthingstone 

 on December 14th). Found in Stratford Hill; away 

 past Shalstone Coppice, to Gorrell Farm, ran him 

 fast to the homestead ; never could make more out 

 of him, until too late ; after we left they found him 

 in the hen-roost ! Shalstone Spinneys and Westbury 

 Wild blank ; found in Whitfield Wood ; they ran 

 hard in the wood, away through Shalstone Coppice, 

 to Mr. Higgins's osier-bed, and ran into him in the 

 open. 



'^ Feb. 23. — Badby House, by special invitation. It was 

 a sharp frost with snow lying on the ground. We put 

 the hounds on the train at Towcester, and went to Byfield 

 Station. When we arrived at Badby House I never 



