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horse, who proved himself very good. Sixteen couples ; 

 the hounds quite fresh at the end." 



On the 20th they had another old-fashioned run from 

 Sudbury ; hounds found in the Alder Moor, and a few 

 couples slipped away, and were not caught till just beyond 

 Foston Mill. From here they ran by Sutton, and by 

 Barton Park to Longford slowly, but they got up to him 

 at Longford Car, and ran fast through Shirley Park and 

 over Bradley bottoms ; here the inevitable curdog chased 

 the fox and brought hounds to a check. They hit him 

 off again, and hunted him up to beyond Hulland, where 

 darkness overtook them, and they had to give it up. 



They were evidently in for a run of sport, for on the 

 23rd, from Gorsty Lees, they had one of the best runs 

 they had ever had hitherto. They went away at once, 

 the best pace, by Ticknall, through the end of Staunton 

 Springs, through Breedon Cloud, almost to Grace Dieu, 

 turned over the forest, left Bardon Hill to the right, and 

 over by Markfield windmill, through the corner of Martin- 

 shaw, across the Leicester Road, by Grooby, through 

 Steward's Hays, almost to Bradgate Park. They then 

 came back along the valley, and killed him at Ulverscroft 

 Abbey, after two hours and ten minutes, and it was an 

 hour and five minutes to the first check. 



The squire rode Goldfinch ; Tom, Jaspar ; Joe, Pigg ; 

 and little Tom, Muslin. 



This was at least twenty -three miles. 



Killed sixteen brace ; to ground, five and a half brace ; 

 lost, twenty-four brace ; badgers, one ; blank days, three. 



A detailed account of the great run into Leicestershire 

 on February 23rd appeared in the Sporting Magazine of 

 that month, and is as under : — 



February 23rd, 1826. 

 On this day the hounds of Hugo Meynell, Esq., met at Ingleby House, near 

 to Foremark, the seat of Sir Francis Burdett, which, however, the worthy baronet 

 does not often visit, and where, in the days of his father, Sir Robert Burdett, a 

 gallant pack of foxhounds was kept. The hounds were thrown into an adjoining 

 covert, which they drew without finding. This excited much surprise, as it was 

 considered a sure find, and some persons, who reside in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood, and who happened to be on the ground, were decidedly of opinion that the 



