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I did not get them together till we got to the Luggars- 

 hall road. Here Kansom made a drive up the furrow 

 of a ploughed field (only the second we had seen), and 

 then stopped as if she was shot. The fox had been 

 headed by a plough, and turned short to the left. 

 Nosegay, Governess, and one other, hunted the line, 

 and I nicked in with the body in the field before them, 

 and away they scored again. They ran up the Luggarshall 

 and Piddington road for the length of two fields ; the 

 fox was headed and turned down to the right. Gallant 

 making a good hit ; the fox then shifted one furrow. 

 Dreadnought, another young one, hitting that off. 

 Twice the fox tried to make his point at Piddington 

 village, but both times was headed by hedge cutters ; 

 but he tried it a field further on, ' and then turned up 

 again, and set his head for Muxwell Hill. In the turn 

 the body ran over it, but Nosegay carried it on, and 

 never left the line. When we crossed the Piddington 

 and Luggarshall road the second time, two or three 

 horsemen joined, but I had no time to see who they 

 were, two Drakes, Holland, and I having the best of it. 

 When about half way up the hill the hounds paused 

 among some cattle, but Blossom, Governess, and two 

 others hunted it through. When they got to the top, 

 hounds turned short to the right, and I lost sight of 

 them for two fields. The hill is very steep, and I got 

 into a very deep stubble field, so I pulled into a trot to 

 ease my horse, and I went through a farmyard, when 

 I found myself again in the field with the hounds, and 

 above them, they having gone down the hill, and Ned 

 Drake and Holland having gone with them. George 

 Drake had followed me through the farmyard, and then 

 joined the other two ; I kept above them. We then 

 crossed the Brill and Bicester road, which only has two 



