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wedding day." His Grace arranged for the hounds to 

 meet in honour of the marriage of Mr. Cecil Samuda and 

 Miss Cecile Markham. The Duke of Rutland and , 

 members of the hunt went to church in hunting costume, 

 and after the grand ceremony and breakfast were over, 

 a very large field accompanied the i^ack to Burbidge's 

 cover, where a fox was found, who proved quite equal 

 to the occasion. A crowd of foot-hunters had stationed 

 themselves on the high ground overlooking the cover, 

 and bold reynard swam the river and ran through their 

 very midst. Once clear of them he ran a bee line, with 

 the hounds pretty close to his brush, away b}' Burton 

 Lazars, Berry Gorse, Laxton's Spinney, crossed the 

 Whissendine brook, and passed just to the right of the 

 village, and from thence, forward nearly to Ranksboro' 

 Gorse, then wheeled round, running by the Punch Bowl 

 and Wheat Hill planting. Here there were two or three 

 foxes, but the pack stuck to their game fox, who made 

 his way back by Wild's Lodge and Burton, to ground, 

 by the Dalby Road near Melton. Time, an hour and 

 fifty-three minutes ; a good sporting run. 



March 6th, 1878. — Ash Wednesday. Met at Piper 

 Hole. In a gale of wind we ran a fox from Holwell 

 Mouth at a rattling pace, away over the vale, and passed 

 to the right of Nether Broughton, and forward for some 

 distance in a direct line for Hickling, when we wheeled 

 round, running between the two Broughtons, and 

 nearly reached Old Dalby, when a turn, right 

 handed, took us over the hill ; after which, we took a 

 straight line for Willoughby-on-the- Wolds, killing our 

 fox close to the village. Time, one hour after leaving 

 Holwell Mouth. 



On Ash Wednesday, 1867 — From Clawson Thorns 

 we ran over nearly the same line of country, and then 

 killed close to Willoughby. 



