1886-87] Frank Beers' Diaries. 179 



it up. A good scenting day ; many falls and tired 

 horses. 



'' Nov. 27th. — The Kennels. Fire Furze and Grafton 

 Park blank. We found in Waterslade, away through 

 Cattle Hill into Paulerspury Fields, across Sholebrook to 

 Whittlebury and Sholebrook Lodge, killed close to the 

 back-kitchen door. Found another fox in Briary, away 

 through Cattle Hill close past Sholebrook, over the 

 Rookery at Whittlebury, straight through Bucknells to 

 Abthorpe, over the brook, ran by the railway some 

 distance ; then, pointing for Kingthorn Mill, turned over 

 Handley Fields, and lost the fox at dusk on Lord's Fields 

 Farm. A capital hunt. Another fifteen minutes' day- 

 light would have brought him to hand. Hounds hunted 

 beautifully. 



" Nov. 2gth. — Green's Norton. Found in Grimscote 

 Heath, and ran to ground in a drain under the Foxley 

 road. Found again in Tite's Coppice ; ran down to 

 Bradden, over the road to Abthorpe, turned away 

 parallel with the railroad, turned to the left, leaving 

 Kingthorn Wood on the right, went through Bradden 

 Ponds, over the brook, leaving Blakesley on the left, 

 Foxley to the left, through Grub's Coppice, through 

 Lichborough Coppice and Grimscote Heath to the 

 village, past the Downs Farm, pointing for Lichborough, 

 turned short to the right through Rodmere, and ran 

 into him fairly in the open between there and the 

 Weedon and Towcester road. An hour and ten 

 minutes ; no end of falls, over a stiff country he ran. 

 Drayson's osier-bed and Tififield Allotments blank, gave 

 it up. Bitch pack, 23 couples. 



'^1887. Feb. 4th. — Wappenham. Found in Plumpton 

 Wood, away to Adstone over the Maidford Brook, 

 through Seawell Wood to Bushey End, where he waited 



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