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benham, one field to the right of the Earndon and 

 Harboro' road. I got into the road, and here Dick and 

 Charlie (my boy) joined ns. Hounds crossed the road 

 into the big field, and the Welland at the Harborongh 

 corner. Charlie had a shy at the rails and tumbled over 

 them. I went further up the field for a broken rail. 

 Dick and I both lay to the left for Lubbenham cover, 

 thinking that was his point, but he crossed the river 

 and rail at the Harboro' end. We lifted the railway 

 gate ofi" its hinges, and crossed near the cover — Topham, 

 Mills, Mayon, Charlie, &c. We caught the hounds at 

 the Harboro' and Lubbenham road. They then turned 

 their heads towards Bowden Inn, and began to run 

 hard. Grief began to be visible at the next fence, a 

 nasty place up hill. Birch Eeynardson had his horse 

 in the ditch, and was exclaiming, " Oh. dear ! oh, dear !" 

 Two fields further on my mare began to trot (she had 

 a good dressing with the first fox, having run an hour 

 up and down the rides in Loatland Wood). I heard 

 Dick whistle behind me, and say, " Take my horse, sir, 

 he has ten minutes left." I changed with him, and told 

 him to get " Eainbow" from Morris as soon as he could. 

 " Usurper," his horse, was fresh enough, for he mshed at 

 the first fence — a drop — over-jumped himself, and gave 

 me a regular burster, and knocked five minutes of the 

 ten out of himself. No harm done ; scrambled on and 

 caught the hounds at the railway bridge at Bowden Inn. 

 The fox had run the road. Eelish hit the line through 

 the hedge on the right, and Tom held the rest up to her. 

 The field had cut ofi" the tail hounds, and got Elasher 

 and Graceful in the middle of them, and were playing 

 at football with them, for which I blessed them. They 

 ran round the back of Bowden Inn, paused for a 

 minute at a plough, and crossed the rail at the first 



