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very fast, so I called them, and every hound 

 seemed to know me, and down the back street we 

 went and into the direct road for Mursley. On 

 clearing the village hounds caught the scent, and 

 ran directly over Mr. Dauncey's Park, and down 

 to a very awkward fence and brook at the 

 bottom ; then a very rough country had to be 

 crossed on the left of Winslow Spinneys, over the 

 Swanbourne road, where more difficulties came 

 for me, but the hounds kept singing away. The 

 fox ran up a grass baulk with two or three gates 

 upon it ; many hounds jumped them. We then 

 crossed the Aylesbury road leaving Christmas 

 Gorse and Mains Hill on the right. At this point 

 a broad expanse of the creamy Vale presented 

 itself ; not for one instant had they checked. 

 Going as of old, they gave me work enough to 

 keep with them ; and ran straight over the Vale up 

 to North Marston. There the fox turned right- 

 handed ; he had shot his bolt, but still they 

 chased him down to the right of Granborough, 

 and I saw him ; the bitches crept up to him and 

 from scent to view they ran into a fine old fox in 

 the middle of a large grass field. 



At that moment I saw a gentleman coming into 

 the field at the bottom and he was the first man 

 to appear. All through inattention on the part of 



