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vale to Hose Gorse and lost. Sherbrooke's gorse was 

 then called upon, and it supplied us with a good stout 

 fox, who went away over the Smite as bold as a lion, and 

 getting a good start after him, hounds ran tremendously 

 hard for forty-five minutes, without a check. The line 

 which we ran was pretty straight as far as Widmerpool 

 New Inn, being just to the left of Hickling, and over 

 Hickling Standard, through Parson's Thorns without 

 dwelling, and straight for the New Inn. Then he 

 turned for Kinoulton Gorse, through it, and straight to 

 and through Owthorpe Borders to the JVJain Earths 

 (this was reached in the time above mentioned, viz., 

 forty-five minutes, and out of a large field very few 

 were to be seen with hounds, many coming to grief). 

 Fortunately hounds were stopped, and reynard then 

 made straight for Hoe Hill, but some boatmen on the 

 canal prevented him from going into the covert, and, 

 being only a field ahead, it seemed a certainty we should 

 kill him directly ; but this game fox struggled on field 

 after field, to the left of Eatcliffe, and then for Cotgrave 

 Gorse, and it being quite dark, we knew not what had 

 happened, whether hounds killed their fox, or ran him 

 to ground, but it was one or the other. We were 

 afterwards informed many of the Melton horses were 

 left out all night in the AVidmerpool country. 



April 12th, 1876.— Belvoir. Splendid finale to the 

 season, on the Leicestershire side. Through a heavy 

 snowstorm we failed to do any good with a fox which 

 was found on Saltley Heath, but late in the afternoon 

 we found a good one in Bescaby Oaks, who first of all 

 took a turn over Croxton Park, when away he went past 

 Sproxton Thorns and Coston Village to Coston Covert, 

 and through it, without dwelling a moment. Up to this 



