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Col. Thomson rode Maximus and Peter ; Tom Powell, 

 Mayboy ; Morris, Wolf dog. Twenty couple of white 

 hounds. 



N.B, — The Bicester packs were divided into white 

 and black at that time. 



THE WATEELOO EUN WITH THE PTTCHLEY, 



Eebetjary 2nd, 1866. 

 Weitten" by Colonel Ansteijthee Thomson. 



The accounts of the Waterloo Eun have been so 

 many and so various, that I send you what 

 I believe to be the leading facts in the day's sport. The 

 hounds ran their first fox in Loatland Wood, and in 

 and out of cover for one hour and five minutes, and ran him 

 to ground to Arthingworth. They found again in 

 Waterloo Grorse at a quarter to tw^o. The time from 

 Waterloo to the earths at Keythorpe was one hour fifty 

 minutes. The total time was three hours forty-five 

 minutes, but w-e Lad a long check, twenty or twenty-five 

 minutes at the windmill at Medbourne, and hunted on 

 slowly afterwards. I take the distance to be from 

 Waterloo to Kelmarsh, three miles; from Kelmarsh to 

 Keythorpe, eighteen, as we ran it, being twenty-one 

 miles in one hour and fifty minutes. There were only 

 four ploughed fields in that distance. The hounds were 

 only off" the line once, between Kelmarsh and Key- 

 thorpe, when I lifted them one field to a holloa at Little 

 Oxendon. As to changing foxes, I don't think we 

 clianged at Shipley Spinney. We might have changed 

 when I lifted the hounds at Little Oxendon, but I don't 



