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ascendant, and the ranks swelling every day. In 

 the Croxton Park district scent had greatly 

 improved, and good runs were in evidence. 

 The field on Wednesday, November the 23rd, 

 contained some well-known faces, amongst 

 those who joined the Duke being Mr. and 

 Lady Alice Des Voeux, Messrs. Behrens, 

 Mr. George Drummond, Mr. Hardy, Major 

 Claggett, Capt. Coventry,Mr. H. Micklethwaite, 

 Mr. A. Brand, Mr. J. Hardy, Junr., 

 Capt. Riddell, Capt. Singleton, Mr. Worsley, 

 Messrs. Hornsby, Mr. John Bland, Mr. W. 

 Pinder, Mr. Fisher, Mr. James Hutchinson, 

 Messrs. Burbidge, Messrs. T. and F. Vincent, 

 Mr. Brewster, Mr. Smith, Mr. W. Downing, &c. 

 Sport was enjoyed in a smart run over the 

 heath and through Croxton Park, with a ring 

 back in a fast gallop of thirty minutes, the fox 

 going to ground in Tipping's Gorse. On the 

 Saturday following, the hounds met at Croxton 

 Park, when Lord and Lady Grey de Wilton, 

 Lord Coventry, Colonels Forester, Reeve, 

 Markham, Captains Saville and King, with 

 many others, were amongst the party. The 

 trysting place was Sproxton Thorns, where 

 hounds soon notified to the phalanx of horse- 

 men at the south-west corner that their game 



