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a most terrible pace for fifty minutes through 

 Kirkby Wood and pointing for Lindley, when 

 the hounds ran from scent into view and killed 

 close to Stoke Golding, an old bitch-fox ; many 

 Melton men out. Rode Houghton and Titus; 

 Jack, Rocket ; Kit, Selim. 



'' December 17th. Shuttington Bridge. — 

 Twenty-three couples ; tried Amington Decoy 

 and the Frith blank ; found in Hopwas ; rattled 

 him once or twice round the covert ; went away, 

 and ran him a desperate pace up to Money Moor 

 Plantation, where he just beat the hounds to 

 ground. Found a brace in the Brockhurst, 

 one of which we ran round by Canwell, and he 

 laid down in a pit in a wheat field, jumped up 

 in view, and we ran into him nicely, close to the 

 garden wall at Middleton; an hour and five 

 minutes : a bitch - fox. Rode Houghton and 

 Whittington; Jack, Rocket; Kit, Selim. 



'' December 19th. Biddlesfield. — Twenty-one 

 couples ; drew the wood and Aston Furze ; 

 found in Manley gorse, and chopped a bitch-fox. 

 Another broke away at the same time, which 

 we ran through Money Moor, Weeford Park, past 

 Canwell, and over the enclosures to Drayton, 

 where we ran from scent into view, and killed 

 in the middle of Drayton Park. Striver and 

 Traveller the two leading hounds ; an old dog-fox. 

 A pretty run of fifty-eight minutes. It came on 

 to rain very hard, but the gentlemen wished us 

 to try on, and found close to Middleton, but it 

 poured so with rain we could do nothing. Rode 



