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before, and dead beaten ; still he managed to struggle 

 on, and at Langar darkness was coming on at such a 

 pace that it was found impossible to continue the pur- 

 suit; and however richly hounds deserved their fox, 

 they had to be stopped, and come home without him, 

 after hunting him for three hours and forty minutes in 

 the most persevering manner possible. Although the 

 longest point would not be more than thirteen miles, 

 the country crossed would not measiu'e less than t\^-enty- 

 three, and this all grass, with the exception of ten or 

 twelve fields, and one covert only touched, viz., Mr. 

 Cradock's ash spinney, near Six Hills, near where it is 

 most likely foxes were changed. 



A short description may be given of a very long run 

 which took place on Monday, Dec. 31st, when the meet 

 was at Widmerpool New Inn. There was a good- 

 sized field out, and the favourite covert, Curates Grorse, 

 was the order, where we at once found. Going away 

 by the meeting place, our fox then turned to the left, 

 and ran parallel with the Fosse road as far as Willoughby, 

 then bearing to the left, re-crossed it, and then steering 

 for the Vale, he passed the Broughtons and Mr. Sher- 

 brooke's covert ; after which he bore round to the right, 

 and ran up to the Wartnaby hills, and passing Little 

 Belvoir and Hoi well Mouth, got again into the vale by 

 Clawson, from which another turn took us over the hiUs, 

 this time to keep straight ahead. Having passed Grim- 

 stone Gorse and Lord Aylesford's covert, we kept on 

 thence by Eagdale, and were soon afterwards treated to 

 a shy at the Hoby raspers, at one of which Count 

 Kinsky got an awful fall, a bottom which looked to be 

 eighteen or twenty feet wide, with stake and bound 



