THE BIGGEST FOX I EVER SAW. IJl 



Gorse, passing it, ran to Theddingworth and on to Galby, 

 where fox waited for us, and ran back, leaving Bosworth Gorse 

 to right, past Walton Holt to Walton and Gilmorton villages, 

 and on to Bittesvvell, where we changed and ran on by UUes- 

 thorpe station and round to Cotesbach, where he got to ground. 

 Running hard 4 hours 10 minutes. Brought hounds home by 

 train from Rugby. 



The best day's sport the Master ever had, and the largest fox 



he ever saw. 



1883-84. 

 November 29th. Met at Stonton ; found in Stonton Wood and 

 raced towards Noseley, turned to right along brook side, past 

 RoUeston to Skeffington, turned left just short of Skeffington 

 Wood, and hunted well past Tilton to John o' Gaunt, out to 

 Markfield on a stale line and stopped hounds. Found again in 

 RoUeston — the biggest fox I ever saw, — and ran fast, leaving 

 Billesdon to the right, nearly to the coplow, where he was 

 headed ; I saw him coming back from the coplow in the next 

 field as we were going towards it over the Leicester Road, 

 leaving Billesdon on the left, towards Frisby, bearing right to 

 Houghton and on to Ingarsby, back under Quenby, along the 

 spinney by railway, by Lord Morton's Gorse, over the hill 

 towards Skeffington, where he jumped up on to a hay stack, 

 where a truss had been cut out ; one hound winded him 

 and turned him off, and killed in the middle of a ploughed 

 field between Tilton and Skeffington. I always consider this 

 the best day's sport I ever saw. 



Another fine run of a hours 23 minutes. 



December 17th. Met at Husbands Bosworth ; found at Bosworth 

 Gorse, and ran at fair pace past Walton Holt, through Kil- 

 worth Sticks, by Kilworth House, through Caldecot Spinney, 

 round Walcot, past Shawell Wood to Swinford, and on to 

 Stanford Hall, and raced to Lilbourne station, and killed on 

 railway bank. 2 hours 23 minutes. 



Junction with Lord Lonsdale's hounds. 



February 2nd. Met at Nevill Holt ; found in Watson's Gorse and 

 ran fast by Drayton, along river — a most unusual line — between 

 Rockingham station and village, where Lord Lonsdale's 

 hounds joined in, crossed road and ran on up the valley towards 

 Gretton, back by cow pastures, and killed in pond near 

 Rockingham lodge. 



