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stop them, for we have, " Snow and frost began on 

 January 3rd, and continued till the 27th. Killed during 

 snow at Radburne five (hares)." On February 27th, the 

 Hunt ought to have gone home happy, for they " found 

 in Langiey AVood a fox, to Mercaston, to Brailsford, to 

 Hullaud, to Atlow, and lost at Blackwall Car, twenty- 

 five miles in two hours." This season they killed forty- 

 seven and a half brace of hares. 



On November 17th, in the following season, the good 

 people of Derby must have been rather astonished, for the 

 hounds " killed a hare in St. Peter's Parish." On Monday, 

 November 26th, 1792, they ran "the Brailsford hare 

 round Langiey, Burrows, and Mercaston, taken alive 

 between Hodskinson's and Brailsford." December 4th, 

 1793, was the day of a memorable run indeed, with a "Bag 

 fox from Park Hall, Bannils Lane to Radburne, to Mickle- 

 over, to Littleover, to Normanton, to Osmaston, over 

 river, and killed at Burrow's Ash ; ran twenty miles in an 

 hour and fifty minutes." Another capital run was on 

 February 22nd, 1794 : "Hulland Ward. Ran a fox from 

 Mercaston Mill Dam, to Hulland Ward, to Bradley, to 

 Hulland, to Ashley Hay, to Ireton Woods, to Blackwall 

 Car, to Shottle, and lost at Turnditch ; ran two hours 

 and a half." These hounds must have been stout enough 

 for anything, for they were out again on the 24th, runnmg 

 for two hours, and again on the 26th, when they " ran 

 a fox out of a hollow tree at Barton Fields to Church 

 Broughton, to Foston, over the Dove to Hanbury. Ran 

 a hare about Sutton, good sport, took off ; ran two hares 

 and killed one. In fact, there is hardly a day when they 

 did not kill. Fifty-eight brace is the total for the season, 

 and the writer sums up with, " This season not so 

 good as some before. The fox-hunting very good, better 

 than the hare-hunting. October, dry. November and 

 December, good scenting and good sport. January, frost. 

 February and March, very bad scenting, ground not 

 heavy, weather mild, very little rain, successful in finding 

 foxes." The account of the seventh season winds up with, 



