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helped me through Market Harbor ough ; all the rest of 

 the way we jogged side by side, and the hounds trotted 

 along with their sterns up. It was a fine, mild, quiet 

 night. I stopped every three or four miles, and called • 

 them ; they all came round me, wagging their tails, and 

 trotted on again. We got to the kennels, eighteen or 

 nineteen miles, about ten o'clock. 



At Lamport I met all the party starting for the Har- 

 borough ball. My wife returned, and waited while I 

 went to Brixworth with the hounds, got a hack, and 

 galloped back to Lamport. I met Dick with " Usurper," 

 just as I was coming out of Brixworth. I sat down to 

 dinner at ten minutes to eleven o'clock, got to the Har- 

 borough ball at 12.30, and remained two hours. I was 

 very little tired, and was at Ashby St. Legers by twelve 

 o'clock the next day. 



After I changed horses with Dick at Glooston, he 

 came on with Mr. Hay's horse to the top of Hallaton 

 Thorns, but finding he could not go the pace to be any 

 assistance, he came quietly on to Pallow Closes, picked 

 up Tyrant (who was short of work, having a toenail off",) 

 and Bluecap, and went to Mr. Hay's, at Grreat Bowden. 

 He there got his own horse, who had eaten a feed of 

 corn, went into Harborough to get a shoe put on, and 

 jogged on home. Charlie went as far as Langton, over- 

 took Morris at Bowden Inn, and went home with him. 

 Tom's horse, " Fresco," carried him capitally up to Key- 

 thorpe, and there he stopped trying to get up to me, 

 when he viewed the fox. He came on as far as 

 Slawston, and then went on to Bowden Inn, where his 

 horse remained all night. John Pye, my groom, came 

 on the carriage to Harborough when we went to the 

 ball, and brought him home next morning. Of the 

 hounds left out. Bowman, Fanny, Governess, and Glory, 

 came home next day; Monarch came in on Monday. 



