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jumped up; came back through Meriden Shafts, 

 and down to the woods where we first found, 

 and had several foxes on foot directly, and at 

 last with great difficulty contrived to stop the 

 hounds, as our horses were all tired and it was 

 nearly dark ; an excellent scent, and ran three 

 hours without a check. Rode Cottager ; Jack, 

 Doctor ; Kit, Pomfret/' 



Just when they were having this excellent 

 sport, a sharp frost came and stopped hunting 

 till the 13th. On this day they were advertised 

 to meet at Higham ; it was barely fit to hunt, 

 but being a '' club day,'' he threw off at Wedding- 

 ton Wood. ''Nobody out except Chetwode and 

 Lloyd '' ; found, and ran past Stoke Gorse by 

 Sutton Ambion to Bosworth, where hounds were 

 stopped on account of the ground. Mention is 

 made that Modesty got under the ice in crossing 

 the canal and was drowned. 



'' February 17th. Twycross. — Eighteen 

 couples ; drew both the coverts at Coton and 

 Gopsall blank ; trotted away to Odstone, where 

 we found in the Gorse ; ran him very sharp by 

 Nailstone Village through Nailstone Whigs, and 

 straight up for Barden Hill, over the hill and on 

 to Copt Oak Wood, where we got upon a brace 

 of fresh foxes, and kept changing so often in the 

 forest that at the last we stopped the hounds. 

 Our first fox had lost half his brush. The thirty 



