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foxes, disturbed at the Rectory Covert, went 

 away to Elton, and after running a ring^ 

 returned to the thicket. He was forced out 

 again, and bore across the vale past Jericho, 

 and thence hounds crossed the Grantham canal 

 near Redmile, racing as hard as they could to 

 Barkston Wood, and killing their fox near 

 Stathern Point in fifty-five minutes. Con- 

 spicuous amongst the pioneers were Captain 

 Boyce, some officers of the Guards from 

 Melton, and Whitemore, the locum tenens in 

 Cooper's absence from a fall. Next drawing 

 Jericho, there was a severe run over a consider- 

 able portion of the vale, mostly lying to the 

 west, hounds finally losing their fox near 

 Whatton. So heavy was the ground that few 

 stayed till the finish, many of the horses being 

 completely pumped out and reduced to a walk. 



Cooper possessed wonderfully fine hands 

 and never hurried his horses at their fences, 

 and it was marvellous what big places they 

 would cover, when you might have laid your 

 bottom dollar that the yawning ditch on the 

 far side would have been a halting place for 

 horse and rider. Particularly well do I re- 

 member two smallish brown mares who carried 



