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the hounds. A very good run. I rode Feeble ; Tom, 

 Aaron ; Joe, brown mare." This was about a nme-mile 

 point, and at least fifteen as hounds ran. 



Tuesday, April 14th, Kedleston. This is interesting as 

 l^eing the first day that he met there, and hunted that side 

 of Derbyshire. They had rather a wonderful run, too, for 

 after stopping hounds from a vixen found at Kedleston, 

 they drew on to Radburne, where " Sir H. Every put a fox 

 down, and we ran him very hard by Langley, Kedleston, 

 Quarndon Car, crossed the Derwent by Little Eaton, and 

 killed him at Horsley Park, fifty-three minutes, the best 

 pace. A large field and almost all beat. Several Melton 

 people out." 



Well pleased must the squire have been to have shown 

 the latter such a gallop, for it is close on a nine-mile 

 point, and the fox went as straight as a gun-l)arrel back 

 to his home amongst the rocks at Horsley Car, which he 

 was never destined to reach. 



" Well known is yon cover, 

 And crag hanging o'er ; 

 The little Red Rover 



Shall reach it no more ! 



The foremost hounds near him, 

 His strength 'gins to drop ; 

 , In pieces they tear him, 



Who-whoop ! Who-who-wlioop ! " 



They hunted this season sixty-five days, killed seven 

 and a half brace of foxes, ran five brace to ground, lost 

 eighteen brace, and had ten blank days. But who would 

 mind a blank day sometimes, if foxes ran now as they did 

 then ? 



1818-1819 



The pack was increased to thirty-two and a half couples ; 

 several drafts were added from Lord Sondes and others. 

 Regular hunting began at Sudbury coppice on Saturday, 

 October 10th, and on the 20th killed a mangy fox at 

 Kedleston. There must have been some very large drains 



