1886-87] Frank Beers' Diaries. 181 



•Capes brickyard, Ganderton on the right, to Canons 

 Ashby Ponds, not two hundred yards in front of the 

 hounds between Canons Ashby and Eydon on Crock- 

 well Farm. Found another fox in the gorse between 

 Canons Ashby and Plumpton ; away close at him they 

 ran, in view, to Plumpton Wood, through the Lower 

 Coppice back to Adstone, to Canons Ashby, through the 

 Ponds, away over Crockwell Farm, pointing for Wood- 

 ford Village, turned short to the right, Ganderton to the 

 left, to ground under the road on Woodford Hill, close 

 to Mr. Ward's house. Poked him out with a pole, and 

 away they raced him through Ganderton along the flat, 

 and ran into him going for Woodford. A capital day's 

 sport. 



''Feb. 2ist. — Stoke Plain. Found in Stoke Bruerne 

 Park ; ran away round the covert once, and killed 

 him; he was headed into the hounds' mouths. Found 

 again in a hedge close to Ashton Spinney, away down 

 by side of the river, pointing for Bozenham Mill, 

 over by the old ford, away all by themselves. Hounds 

 ran hard all along the Alderton Meadows, over the 

 brook, past Shutlanger Grove, through Rifle - Butts 

 Spinney to the Reformatory, close at him, dead-beat. 

 Unfortunately a fresh fox jumped up before them, and 

 away they ran ; there was no stopping them, past 

 Tiffield, over to Caldecote, to Astcote Village ; short 

 back to within a field of the Allotments, through the 

 Reformatory Gorse, back to Easton Neston, and lost him. 

 Found again in Plane Woods, away through Nun Wood 

 to Roper's Gorse, back by Blisworth to Nun Wood, 

 Plane Woods, and Roade Cutting, where three hounds 

 v\Aent over, unhurt ; back to Shutlanger, and Bozenham 

 Mill to the new Covert, Grafton, and stopped them at 

 Alderton. No one left with the hounds but Lord Euston 



