GOOD DAY BAD FALL. I 5 



and snow on the ground, did not look like hunting ; went to 

 try, found it not as bad riding as for the hounds. Drew Norton 

 Gorse ; found ; went over the Norton Brook, leaving Little 

 Stretton on the left, almost up to Hall's Spinney ; bending to 

 the right we left Houghton on the left, over the turnpike as if 

 for Scraptoft, bending to the right we went up to Ingarsby, 

 where we expect he got to ground, though they did not mark 

 him. Second fox at Glenn Gorse, ran quick by Stretton Hall 

 up to Great Stretton, up to Stoughton, and lost him at 

 Evington, the weather not improving a bad scent ; drew 

 Knighton Spinnies blank, and came home after as good a day 

 as we could expect in the frost and snow — 15 couples of 

 hounds. 



Two months later the hounds again met at Norton-by- 

 Gaulby, and notwithstanding that the game little Master 

 "got an ugly fall over a style," it is described as a 

 " very good day indeed." 



March 5th. Met at Norton - by - Galby. Rode Chieftain and 

 Coventry; drew Galby Spinnies, Norton Gorse, and Glenn 

 Oaks blank ; found at Glenn Gorse, ran over two fields and 

 lost him ; got an ugly fall over a style ; no scent whatever. 

 Found again at Shangton Holt, ran over the Stonton Brook, 

 where he must have got into a drain, as we could make 

 nothing more out of him. Found a third fox at Langton 

 Caudle, which ran to ground in a drain, but we could not get 

 him out ; trotted off to Glooston Wood, found immediately ; 

 went off best pace for Keythorpe Wood, leaving it on the left 

 and Hallaton Wood on the right ; over Hallaton Bottom, 

 leaving Vowe's Gorse on the left, by Fernfarm straight up to 

 Alexton Wood — very fast — very good twenty-five minutes, 

 through Alexton Wood, where we thought a fresh fox had 

 gone away. Day cast on for Wardley Wood, whereas our fox 

 had gone on to Stockerston and Stoke End ; ran up to 

 Stockerston, when we stopped the hounds. Very good day 

 indeed. 



Number of days hunted, 35. 



Foxes killed, only 8. 



Foxes run to ground — it is impossible to say how many, as 

 several must have gone to ground we could not account for, so 

 many drains being open. 



