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true to his name, carried me from beginning to end, and 

 he missed but very few fields which the pack crossed 

 all throughout." 



Tuesday, Decembee 23iid, 1884. 

 ETJN WITH MR. JAEYIS'S HOUNDS. 



We met at Langford Hall. — A beautiful morning, and 

 very still. What wind there was, north-west. Drew 

 the two little covers by Langford Hall and Winthorpe 

 Car covers blank. Found our fox in the cover adjoining 

 Coddington Hall, which I drew by permission of Major 

 Tempest, acting master of the Blankney Hounds. 



Ran down the Park, and crossed the Newark and 

 Sleaford turnpike at the bottom of the hill, where he 

 was coursed by a sheep dog across the first field. He 

 ran within one field of the Great Northern Railway, and 

 turned back to the left through Coddington Planta- 

 tions by Barnby Manor, which he left just to his left 

 hand, crossed the river Witham just below Beckingham 

 Tillage — we luckily found a bridge about two hundred 

 yards from where the hounds crossed. They ran on, 

 leaving Fenton to the left, to within three fields of 

 Stubton, where w^e checked. Hit the line off again to 

 the right, leaving Claypole Station on the left, by the 

 side of the railway, to close opposite Balderton Manor 

 House, when he crossed the line, the last hound 

 just getting over before the Express came by. They 

 ran through the little plantations at Balderton, 

 and crossed the Great North Road at their 

 southernmost end, apparently pointing for Gotham 

 Thorns ; here we had a very long check. I held them 



