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about, you are apt to get a little mixed up and lose 

 your place. The hounds were then trotted away for 

 Freeby Wood, Gillard trying to find an outlying fox 

 in the vicinity of Saxby. Not succeeding, however, 

 the hounds were thrown into Freeby Wood, and a fox 

 was promptly on foot, and, after being rattled about 

 the covert for awhile, he breaks away, making for 

 Waltham Thorns, running through that covert, and 

 going in the direction of Waltham village. Then 

 crossing over the Melton road, the hounds go at a 

 swingeing pace over the grass, crossing the brook, a 

 nasty place, likely to bring one to grief; then away 

 over the railway to Goadby Gorse, thence on to 

 Bullimore, where the hounds were at fault, and we 

 lost our fox after a fair run over a good country. 

 Amongst those going in the first flight were Mr. B. 

 W. Lubbock, Captain Elmhirst, and Captain Middleton, 

 with many others who are usually found in a good 

 place. 



As I rode home, thoroughly satisfied with the day's 

 sport, I felt fully impressed with the words of a 

 favourite old hunting-song : 



There is only one cure for all maladies sure, 



That reacheth the heart to its core ; 

 'Tis the sound of the horn, on a fine hunting morn, 



And where is the heart wishing more ? 



