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minutes. *' I got a hard fall and was taken 

 to Rolleston." 



This fall kept him in till 3rd December, when 

 they had a good gallop. After killing a fox in the 

 morning at Barkby Holt, found at Scraptoft, 

 went away by Keyham, Thurnby, Barkby Holt, 

 Baggrave, Quenby Hall, and up to Newton Hill ; 

 there he was coursed by some cur dogs and lost ; 

 '' a very good run of an hour and fifty minutes.'* 



Three days later, finding at Foxton, went away 

 by Peatling through Walton Holt nearly to 

 Stanford Hall, where he was lost in a violent 

 storm ; *' a very good run — straight nine miles in 

 fifty minutes.'' 



'' December loth. Loseby. — Twenty - one 

 couples ; O. P. Found in the Gorse and ran by 

 Quenby, Hungarton, and into a drain at Baggrave. 

 Drew Ashby Pasture and Cream Lodge blank. 

 Found in Thorpe Trussells ; went away over 

 Burrow Hill, by Somerby, through Orton Park, 

 Brook, Manton, and stopped the hounds at dark 

 going for Beaumont Chase ; a capital run of an 

 hour and twenty-five minutes. Rode Peter and 

 Norton." 



Frost here intervened for ten days. 



" December 23rd. Quenby. — Twenty - one 

 couples ; O. P. The ground so hard, there was 

 not a soul out except Frank Needham of Hun- 



