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think we did, as it was in the direction our fox was 

 travelling. I think we changed at Keythorpe Wood, as 

 another fox was viewed there besides the fox which we 

 followed to Medbourne. We may have changed any- 

 where in a hedgerow, but I saw no perceptible change 

 of scent, or anthing to cause me to think so. Some of your 

 correspondents have asked where I managed to get five 

 horses durinsj the run. They will see in " Baily " that I 

 was indebted to the kindness and sportsmanlike feeling 

 of my friends, Mr. Hay and Mr. Walter de Whiton, 

 and I beg all of them to accept my most grateful thanks. 

 Both Colonel Frazer and Mr. Whyte, on getting fresh 

 horses, also most generously offered them to me. 



Friday, Feb. 2nd. — Met at Arthingworth. I rode 

 Valeria and Rainbow; Dick Eoake, Usurper; Tom Firr, 

 Fresco ; CharHe, my son, Amulet. I was staying at Sir 

 Charles Isham's, at Lamport, and hounds called for me 

 as they passed. A very wet morning, but cleared at eleven 

 o'clock ; very mild and still ; not a very good scent in cover ; 

 wind, S.W. Found in Waterloo at five minutes past two 

 by my watch (twenty minutes fast). The fox lay so still, 

 I drew all round the cover, and back to the top before 

 he moved. He lay among a heap of dead sticks — Grace- 

 ful found him. Morris * holloaed him away towards the 

 tunnel. I was at the other end of the cover, and before I 

 got to the hounds they had checked near the road. I took 

 them along the road nearly to the white gate, where 

 they got the line towards Arthingworth. They were 

 ridden otF the line in the first field, but swung round 

 through the fence on to it again, over the brook and 

 spinney at Arthingworth, and crossed the rail. The 

 field w^s full of sheep, and the shepherd told me the 



Richd. Morris, my second horseman, many years with Warwickshire 

 and me, a capital man with hounds. 



