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40 GOODALL AGAIN UNFORTUNATE. 



Summary of Season 1870-71. 



The first part very bad, succeeded by seven weeks of frost ; 

 the latter part being good ; the snow having saturated the 

 ground the scent lay better, and strange to say, March was the 

 best month of the season. The chief incident of the season 

 was Goodall's fall coming from Manton Gorse, whereby he 

 was laid up for the last two months of the season, and I had 

 to hunt the hounds myself, killing 14 foxes. 



Number of days cub hunting - ^3 \ 80 



„ „ regular hunting - 66 J -^ 



Foxes killed cub hunting - - ^3 \ ec 

 ,, regular hunting - - 32 J ''^ 



Foxes run to ground cub hunting- 11 

 „ „ regular hunting 39 



Season 1871-72. 



Cub hunting on the whole has not been good ; scent has 

 been very bad, and foxes would always go to ground. The 

 ground at the same time rode well, fences more blind than 

 ever I saw them. The last three weeks we let hounds go any- 

 where they would, so that it has been in fact regular hunting 

 though we did not advertise. Found lots of foxes, especially 

 in the Monday and Thursday countries. 



On September 4th 6 couple of hounds picked up poison, one 

 died. On 25th October Goodall unfortunately broke his collar 

 bone. 



The Run of the Season. 

 1871. 



November i6th. Met at TugbyToll Bar; foggy. Found in Tugby 

 Wood, ran very quick through Loddington Redditch up to 

 Launde Park Wood, back towards Loddington, away for 

 Launde Park Wood, out on the Cole's Lodge side almost to 

 Withcote, by the Lover's Walk, through Launde Big Wood, 

 over Loddington Road, bore to the right through planting of 

 Lord Berner's, through Butts' planting, running as hard as they 

 could through Skeffington Wood from end to end, out on 

 Tilton side, over Brown's farm, over Tilton Road, by TurnbuU's 

 farm, under Tomlin's Spinney, up to the field next Freer 's 



