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DeAE MeS. MuSTEIiS, 



I am no hand at writing a run, but can give you 

 the following particulars of the one you mention. The 

 date was Monday, January 28th, 1878. The Blankney 

 hounds met at the 7th milestone, Newark road. We 

 found directly in Tunman's Wood, and came away over 

 the Newark and Lincoln road, ran past Haddington to 

 Hykeham plantation, which we left a field to the left, 

 and on past South Hykeham, over the line close to Wad- 

 dington station, and up the hill into Waddington 

 village. Here all the rest of the field got some wrong 

 information, and lost the hounds, and I had them all to 

 myself over the heath past Giles' Grorse to Branston, 

 where we had a check, and Harry Dawkins, the hunts- 

 man, and the first whip, who had ridden by my tracks 

 over the heath, caught me up. We went straight on 

 through the Park at Long Hills, past the end of Potter- 

 hanworth wood ; but our fox was headed a field ofi" the 

 wood, and turned to his left and got to ground in a 

 rabbit hole in a small plantation, called Curtis', about a 

 mile further on. Only Harry Dawkins, the first whip, 

 and myself, were with the hounds when they stopt. 

 Mr. Cooke, a. farmer from Scarle, came up afterwards, 

 and Ave never saw anybody else. It is an eleven mile 

 point, and was all down wind, and was the straightest run 

 I ever saw ; none of it very fast, bub a good holding 

 pace. The fox never touched a covert from find to 

 finish. 



Edwaed H. Nevile. 



