l8 H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE OUT. 



tuality, but upon this exceptional occasion seems to have 

 been later than the appointed hour, as Mr. Tailby's Journal 

 states : — 



Met at Withcote Hall, waited half-an-hour for the Duke of 

 Cambridge, who turned up at last ; was introduced to him. 

 Found five or six foxes ; good day ; very satisfactory for 

 hounds; last run i hour and 15 minutes; horses had enough. 



Season 1858 = 59, Resume (April ist). 



1859. 



November ist. Commenced regular hunting to-day with an efficient 

 staff, 46 couple of hounds, 16 kennel hunters and 2 hacks, all 

 in good health with the exception of the ist whip, who, I 

 fear, must lay up. TiltonWood ; met here ; found three foxes, 

 the day blowing great guns, could not hear, hounds divided, 

 and I thought we should do nothing. However, by dint of 

 management they got settled to a fox, brushed him through 

 Skeffington Wood, out on the Tugby side by the brook, through 

 Tugby Wood, across the Keythorpe Road, very quick across 

 the Turnpike, through Lord Berner's lodge gate, leaving the 

 house on the right, through a plantation near the gardens, 

 across for Old Keythorpe, leaving it just on the left, up the 

 hill, through Keythorpe Wood and straight up to Glooston 

 Wood, where the earths were open ; he got to ground after a 

 capital 45 minutes without a check ; he ran up wind all the 

 way, in the face of a most violent gale— gallant fox. Drew 

 Loddington Reddish and found two or three foxes, but it began 

 to pour with rain, and the day got so bad that there was no 

 scent at all, so we went home after running them through 

 Tugby Wood. 



November 22nd. Met at Leigh Lodge. Quite a red letter day. 

 Found at Manton Gorse, and the fox . . . ran across 

 Martinsthorpe Park, through the spinney at the bottom of the 



