96 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



course pleased to see Lady Graham again on 

 horseback with the hounds, her first appearance, 

 this season. Trotted off a mile to draw the 

 Warren ; found, and away over the open through 

 the Park to the wood near the house; some 

 puzzling work among the hares there ; got up to 

 him, and killed. Time about thirty minutes. 

 Moved away a couple of miles to Tower Hill; 

 three or four foxes on foot instantly, one of whom 

 was soon offered up. Whistled away after 

 another down the belt of trees to the South- 

 We3tern Railway ; ran parallel to it for a mile, away 

 to the right over the open downs, leaving Old 

 Lodge to the left, and to ground in some gorse in 

 the Roche Court direction ; a sharp burst of about 

 twenty-five minutes, rather spoilt by over-riding. 

 I read the Riot Act decidedly, and without 

 distinction of persons — not before it was wanted. 

 On our way back the field were refreshed by Lord 

 Lawrence at his residence. Old Lodge, and the 

 hounds jogged on to Folly Hill ; got up to a fox, and 

 soon ran him to ground. Then over the railway 

 to the Warren, and fastened on to another, who 

 took them almost in view down to the Park; 

 bustled him in the coverts there, and killed — • 

 twenty minutes — eating our last fox under Wil- 

 bury House windows, on precisely the same spot 

 as the first fox of the morning. Hounds started 



