192 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



of it, a bitch-fox ; an exceeding good run of 

 fifty-nine minutes. Rode Thunderbolt and 

 Banbury Horse ; Will, Sledmere ; Jack, Tilton. 

 Hesperus went home early, lame. 



'' December 23rd. Badby. — Twenty-two 

 couples ; D. P. Found a brace immediately ; 

 went away quick over Fawsley Park ; he then 

 turned to the left near to Newnham, on to Dodford 

 Wold, past it and into a drain close to the canal 

 near Brockhall — a very pretty run for forty-five 

 minutes. After some trouble, bolted him ; ran 

 him a terrible pace of ten minutes and killed 

 him, a very old dog-fox. We were so long at 

 the drain I did not draw again. Rode W^el- 

 lington and Victory ; Will, Gravenell ; Jack, 

 Rummer.'' 



Frost then stopped hunting till loth January, 

 when, although '' the grass land was a sheet of ice, 

 and it was scarce possible to hunt," they suc- 

 ceeded in getting out. 



The next day he was riding a new horse, 

 Grimaldi, who refused every fence with him, 

 and lost him a good gallop (he does not appear 

 to have ridden him again), but in the afternoon 

 they had '* an exceeding fine run of one hour 

 and seventeen minutes from Wilmore Park, 

 first a ring to Hardwick, and back through the 

 park, then away past Cransley, Thorpe, and 

 Broughton, to ground at Pytchley Earths.*' 



