THE BOB-TAIL VIXEN. I69 



ground in a culvert under the railway between Slawston covert 

 and Weston, just where the bridle road from Medbourne to 

 Welham and Cranoe, goes under the railway. Time i hour 

 15 minutes. 



I put one of the kennel terriers to ground and it never 

 appeared again. The first whip, Sheppard, after hunting, stayed 

 all night trying to get the terrier out, and the following morn- 

 ing his kennel boy went to ground 25 yards with a rope tied 

 to his legs and a dark lantern, and found water. The weight 

 of the embankment had caused the culvert to sink in the 

 middle ; with a pole he recovered the body of the fox, but the 

 terrier was never found. 



I had this fox's body stuffed and mounted in a case and 

 presented it to Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, and it was in the Hall at 

 Noseley for many years. This vixen was known to have had 

 II litters. 



February 20th. Met at Thorpe Langton ; bye-day. Found in 

 Langton Caudle and raced through Stonton Wood to Hard- 

 wicks and lost ; 16 minutes. Found again in Shangton Holt, 

 ran towards llston Village, back by Rolleston, through Key- 

 thorpe Park, nearly to East Norton ; past Vowe's Gorse to 

 Horninghold and killed near Alexton in the open; i hour 5 

 minutes. 



March 13th. Met at Hallaton. Found outlier near village, ran 

 past Othorpe by Glooston through Keythorpe Wood, past the 

 house to Tugby Bushes, and on to Browne's Bushes ; holloaed 

 on to a fresh fox and lost ; 45 minutes. Found again in Stock- 

 erston and raced through Merevale Holt by Great Eastern to 

 Rockingham Woods and through park to ground near park 

 wall at Middleton. 



1880-81. William Grant, from Lord Macclesfield, huntsman ; 

 afterwards with Lord Middleton (1888). Tom Newman, ist 

 whip ; afterwards huntsman to Cambridgeshire. 



December 20th. Met at Mowsley. Found at Walton Holt, raced 

 past Kilworth Sticks nearly to South Kilworth ; ran back close 

 by Walton Holt, through Kilworth Sticks and lost. Thick fog ; 

 kept losing hounds ; 50 minutes. Found in Bosworth Gorse 

 and ran well past Walton Holt, Walton Village ; leaving 

 Kimcote and Gilmorton well to the left to Peatling covert, and 

 on to Ashby and lost ; 45 minutes. 



