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to Muslin, " who carried him wonderfully to the end," and 

 Joe did quite as well on the new mare. 



Next day he rode Patriot till he stopped and lay 

 down, and well he might, for they had run from Sudbury 

 to Foston, and over the Dove to the plaster pits by Castle 

 Hays to Rolleston, across the river again by Egginton 

 and back to Marston, and were stopped at dark by 

 Tutbury, after running two hours. A few days after- 

 wards they ran from Shirley Park by Bradley and 

 HuUand, and left off close to Matlock, "where they be- 

 lieved the hunted fox was killed, as the hounds were seen 

 to view him. Afterwards fresh foxes got up, and they 

 stopped them ; a magnificent run, most horses tired. 

 Tom, brown mare ; Joe, Needwood ; and little Tom, 

 Patriot, who was lame at starting. Seventeen couples." 



Though he is not always mentioned, it would seem 

 from contemporary writers that Little Tom went out 

 regularly from this time as second whipper-in. This 

 latter run was a twelve-mile point. 



On January 24th they had a wonderful run from 

 Bagot's Park, where they "found in the woods, and went 

 away very fast below the Frame Bank, over to Woodford, 

 across the Dove, and went between Sudbury Coppice and 

 Maresfield Corse, across the Park to Boylestone, through 

 Bentley Car to Yeavely, came to the right through Alk- 

 monton bottoms, and killed him at the old barn by 

 Longford Car, an hour and fifty minutes ; one of the finest 

 runs we ever had. Only Tom, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Calvert, 

 Mr. Sneyd-Kynnersley, Richard Turnor, and a servant 

 with them. Tom rode Fanny, but Aaron was lost in the 

 woods at starting." It does not appear who was riding 

 him, probably Joe. 



Saturday, January 31st, they had a wonderful gallop 

 from Armitage as hard as they could go, " by Beaudesert 

 over Style Cop, to the right of Moor's Gorse and along 

 the Teddesley road to the Warren, where he turned along 

 the ditch of the new enclosure for a mile, came over from 

 Mainstay Wood, turned again on to the Chase, where we 



