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latter met the hounds just as they got over the bridge. 

 They ran across the very middle of Kegworth Station, 

 over both platforms and both lines of rails, and into 

 Kingston Park, where they checked, but hit it off, and 

 ran on across the Park, and out to the left, up to Gotham 

 Stone Pits, and then along the hill top, and after a 

 check there, owing to the fox lying down, they ran 

 on over the hill and down towards Barton very fast. 

 Here they turned to the right across the road, on over 

 the middle of Clifton pasture, crossing the Clifton brook, 

 which is supposed to be unjumpable, and which the 

 field negotiated at a drinking place ; straight on up to 

 Lime Man's Kough. Here, within a field of Rudding- 

 ton, some boys saw the fox close before the hounds, 

 and they began running very hard towards Bradmore, 

 which was left on the right, and pointing for Bancliffe 

 Wood. Mr. Charlton here viewed the fox three fields 

 ahead; the hounds got close to him, ran him into a 

 little spinney between Bradmore and Plumtree, where 

 he laid down, and, coming out in view, they raced him 

 two fields, and ran into him on the Bradmore and 

 Plumtree road, close to where the new railway passes 

 i^lumtree. The time was two hours and forty-four 

 minutes. The distance, twelve miles from point to 

 point ; as the hounds ran, about twenty. Two couples 

 were missing when the fox was killed, but they had 

 been caught and shut up in Sutton Bonnington, where 

 two foxes were before them, so they were not to blame. 

 Those at the finish of this severe run were Lord 

 Perrers, Captain Henry, Mr. Wilham Paget, Mr. Henry 

 Story, Mr. Tidmas, Mr. KoUeston, Mr. Charlton, Mr. 

 Robson, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Newton, 

 Mr. Sanford, Mr. Cresswell, and Mr. Pellowes from 

 Burton-on-Trent. One gentleman, of great hunting 

 experience in various countries, declared this was the 

 best run he had ever seen. 



