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fields further on the fox tried the earth, where Tailby 

 had run to ground on the previous Tuesday, and dug 

 out. I looked at my watch : one hour and fifty minutes, 

 and, I think, about eighteen miles, and hounds had oaly 

 once been ofi" the line, when I lifted them at Little 

 Oxendon. Here there was something like two lines, 

 the body of the hounds going down the field towards 

 Eamshead ; a few others had a scent on the right-hand 

 side of the hedge. Coventry joined us somewhere here, 

 with a pair of trousers on. I heard Tom, a field behind 

 me, holloa, " Yonder he goes ! " and, at the same time, 

 Colonel Frazer told me one-and-a-half couple of hounds 

 were two fields on to the right. I thought the fox had 

 gone through Hallaton Thorns — there is a deep bottom 

 and very steep hill here. I lifted the hounds (hoping 

 to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of 

 Hallaton Thorns. When I got half way up the hill, 

 two gentlemen on foot, who were rabbiting, showed me 

 where the leading hounds were ; they had not come into 

 Hallaton, but were pointing for Fallow Closes, along 

 outside the fence, in at the -gate, and then away along 

 the bottom. I only got thirteen couple away from here, 

 Merryman, Streamer, Relish, Eansom, Dragon, Singer, 

 generally leading, and all working well. Frantic, 

 though she had not been out for weeks, was there. We 

 passed Mr. Studd's house, and they ran away from us 

 again down to Slawston Covert — they just came out of 

 the cover as we got there. The field was full of sheep, 

 and they got the line at the cross-roads. While we 

 were on the road some men on the hill viewed the fox 

 going along the hollow behind us, only one field off. 

 We cut along the road, and got on the line directly, run 

 hard down the meadows to the Welland, near the 

 angle of the river at Welham ; turned to the 



