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until one went to ground near the Deer-park rails 

 on the north side. I asked : '' Shall you bolt 

 him, Captain ? " 



'' No," he replied, " I will have him ; if I bolt 

 him he will go into another drain in five minutes ; 

 I don't believe in letting them off here, it is not 

 fair for hounds, and, you see, there are too many 

 foxes." He was accordingly accounted for. 



We then trotted on to Easton Wood, found a 

 fox directly, and went away close at him, leaving 

 Easton Maudit to the right ; he ran over the 

 open, leaving the Castle on the left, the Chase 

 also, nearly to Brayfield Furze ; turned left-handed 

 through Collier's Earn, down the Deer Park like 

 ffying, through the Chase to old Pond ; turned 

 right-handed out into the open, and hounds ran 

 into their fox before he could reach Weston 

 Wood ; forty-five minutes without a check ; it 

 was getting dark. 



On the other occasion the Deer Park was the 

 meet, with the small pack. They had a great 

 deal of running in the Chase without killing. In 

 the afternoon the scent improved, and a fox went 

 away to Olney Court, turned right-handed, ran 

 parallel with the Chase up to Ravenstone Brook, 

 over it and the turnpike road, through Jarvis's 

 Wood, over Hanslope Field and ran into the fox 



