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approacHing nigiit obliging Gillard to give 

 it up. 



The season, ending April, 1893, closed with 

 a meet at Leadenham House, in honour of the 

 coming of age of Mr. John Sherrard Reeve, 

 son and heir of Lieut. Col. John Reeve. Under 

 a cloudless sky the young gentleman received 

 the congratulations of his friends, toasted in a 

 famous brew of nut-brown October of the same 

 age as himself. The assembly was graced 

 by the presence of several ladies, including 

 Mrs. Longstaffe, Mrs. Montague Thorold, 

 Miss Crofts, Miss L. Willson, Mrs. Long, 

 Mrs. Earl, etc. After killing an outlying fox 

 on Mr. EarPs farm, hounds found at Byard's 

 Leap, and ran, with dust flying, towards Lord 

 Bristol's plantation, but did not persevere with 

 a vixen. At the latter place there was a fox, 

 who went to ground in a shallow recess, which 

 the pack quickly demolished and appropriated 

 its contents. In the evening, from Sparrow 

 Gorse, hounds ran prettily past Sudbrook 

 House and Ancaster Station to the plantations 

 by Willoughby Hall, winding up a pretty five- 

 and-twenty minutes by rolling their fox over 

 in Capt Rennie's grounds. 



