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back to the Toll Bar Cover (time to this point forty minutes). 

 Our fox now hung in the cover for nearly an hour ; at last he 

 was compelled to quit, and broke away to Mr. Waldy's 

 Plantation, thence to Mourie Bank, along by the margin of the 

 Tees to the railway at Yarm, then to the right of Kirklevington 

 Lane, crossed the railway, and pointed to Mr. Meynell's 

 Woods, but, as he had not strength to jump the boundary 

 wall, he turned back across the railway past the brickyards, 

 where the hounds caught a view, and ran into him on the edge 

 of the Tees, after a magnificent run of two-hours-and-quarter — 

 a splendid old dog fox. A fine crisp morning, and a good 

 scenting day ; had nineteen couples of hounds out. Many of 

 our field went home satisfied after the first run. There never 

 was a better day's sport than this with hounds. 



Nov. 29th. — Killerby. Found handsomely and ran a very 

 quick ring to Hilton Blackthorn, then broke to the Tarn and 

 headed back again to the Blackthorn, through the cover, and, 

 after a clipping 23 minutes nearly straight and all over grass, 

 he beat us into a drain near Streatlam. Found again a 

 splendid fox in Dobson's Whin. Away in a moment and 

 without a check eastwards to the Heighington Road. Headed 

 short back and away to Trunnlemire, through it, and away as 

 the crow flies to Brussleton Folly, which we passed close on 

 our left, then ran a ring pointing for South Church and leaving 

 Redworth on our left and Toy-top on our right, and running 

 as if Greystones was now his point, but again he turned, setting 

 his head homeward, and within two fields of Limekiln Bank 

 Cover we stopped the hounds, it being then pitch dark, our fox 

 being dreadfully beaten, and a little more daylight must have 

 sealed his fate. Time, 2 hours 30 minutes. This was in truth 

 a splendid run, being at times very fast, at other times beauti- 

 ful hunting. Most of the field compounded at Trunnlemire, 



