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so many good runs. A fox was quickly found, but on 

 account of the number of people he could not get away 

 so quickly as usual, and indeed he was nearly chopped, 

 through being headed and turned back from the road, 

 which was lined. Making his next attempt on the 

 upper side, he got clear away, and nothing could be more 

 lively than the run which followed. After pointing for 

 Upper Broughton, he swung round to the left, crossed 

 the road, and dipped at once into the valley — hounds 

 racing and shooting through each succeeding fence like 

 so many arrows. A turn to the right taking us under 

 both the Broughtons, and the brook which crossed our 

 path, had the effect of thinning the field most unmistake- 

 ably, one gentleman getting a fearful ducking, his horse 

 walking about on the top of him while he was under 

 water, and he eventually had to ride home to Leicester 

 minus hat, whip, and one stirrup, while a dozen or 

 fourteen others helped to fill its banks. Hounds in the 

 meantime were racing away and waiting for no one, 

 their line being by Mr. Sherbrooke's Covert, and pointing 

 their heads in the direction of Kaye Wood ; but again 

 turning to the left, they wheeled round, and running 

 beside the canal up to Hickling village, they were seen, 

 fox and hounds, tumbling over and over down the em- 

 bankment, when a real hearty whoo-hoop rent the air. 

 Among others, Mr. L. EoUeston went remarkably well, 

 and was one of the first to see the fox rolled over. 



On the day following, viz., Friday, 18th, the fixtui'e 

 was Quenby Hall — and another grand day's sport was 

 the result. The first fox was put up in the open by 

 foot people, but he went to ground at Ingarsby, and we 

 went on to Botany Bay. A traveller was quickly found, 

 and, dashing through the Coplow, made at once '* over 



