A FOXHUNTING JOURNAL 8i 



accounted for his first fox to-day, instead of up-country, 

 where all the coverts had already been drawn twice before 

 this week. 



However, Higginson is a sportsman of the first water 

 and hunted where he was taken. 



He was riding " London Smoke " again, with his whippers- 

 in on greys also, and Will Leverton on "Rugby," as pilot, 

 the first draw being the Norris Wood. Hounds went on 

 through it into the meadow along the creek and into Earle's 

 spinney, when Harry Brown, the Radnor first whipper-in 

 who was over across the creek on top of Howard's Hill, 

 viewed a fox and holloaed him away. Hounds, being cast 

 over the creek, picked up the line along the edge of the 

 Earle drive, carrying it down the drive with a good deal of 

 cry, and a catchy scent, until near the little lake at the foot 

 of the hill, when they swung right-handed up the hill, over 

 the grass and into the wood at the top at a good pace, to a 

 slight check on the north side overlooking Yarnall's Hollow. 

 Hounds then sank the valley bearing slightly left-handed 

 and up the far side into the wood at the top, when they bore 

 right-handed again through the wood road and on down the 

 other hill into Tryon Lewis's swamp, then on into the north 

 side of John Brown's, and we all had to gallop back to Mr. 

 Brown's farm lane, getting even with hounds just as they 

 came out into this lovely stretch of grass and galloping 

 right alongside the pack, which was simply flying over the 

 turf, perfectly packed and in full cry, on across to the drain 

 on the back drive, where they marked him in. As it is im- 

 possible to bolt foxes from this drain, hounds were cheered 

 to it, thus ending a very good sixteen minutes, which put 

 every one in a good humor. 



The next draw was Harrison's Meadows, and on up- 

 country for several hours finding the coverts all blank. 



