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the mornino'. Charles's comment was, " I call that foolish- 



ness." 



Nimrod, junior, in BelVs Life, writes the following 

 graphic account of the same run : — 



This crack pack met last Monday at Sudbury, and, notwithstanding the frost 

 in the early part of the morning, the ground was in very good condition. They 

 soon found, and after running round the coverts a short time, it was killed, and 

 proved, much to the chagrin of Joe Leedham, to be a vixen with seven cubs 

 in her. Lord Chesterfield being out, Mr. Meynell Ingram, out of compliment to 

 his lordship, trotted off to Cubley Gorse, a new covert belonging to his lordship, 

 but Pug was not at home. Bentley Car was then tried, and two of the " varmint " 

 were immediately on foot — the hounds close at the brush of one — and off we 

 went best pace. The crack riders, par excellence of the Hunt, the Rev. German 

 Buckston, and another reverend gentleman, Mr. Spilsbury of Willington, had 

 each a tremendous fall at the same fence, which they charged abreast here. 

 Fortunately, it only made their eyes strike fire a little, and no harm was done, 

 for they were soon up and oft' again. I need not trouble you with mentioning a 

 Ion"- list of places of which most of ; your readers are ignorant, but suffice it to 

 say that the run, without any material check, was witliin five minutes of three 

 hours. They took us through Snelston, up as far as a village called Wyaston, and 

 then turned back, leaving Shirley Park and Longford to our left, and ran 

 into Sudbury coppice, where we met in the morning. After running him in the 

 covert about ten minutes he was killed. He was so beat that he sat down many 

 times till the hounds were within five yards of him. At one time the field was 

 very select. Neither the huntsman nor whip were with the pack, and it was 

 only through the exertions of that famous sportsman, Mr. Trevor Yates of 

 Sapperton, that the hounds were kept to their work. There was a great deal of 

 hard riding at first, and it told on the bellows of the gallant steeds. Lord 

 Chesterfield and Mr. Massey Stanley were forward most of the way, till his lord- 

 ship's second horse threw a shoe, and he was obliged to ride " a young 'un " that 

 Tom Beal * was instructing. Mr. Massey Stanley was up at the finish, as was 

 also the Rev. German Buckston, Mr. R. Chawner, Mr. P. Waite, Mr. Wilmot, 

 and several others, Joe Leedham on Mr. Yates' horse, old Traveller, which he 

 had kindly lent him, and little Jack. The rest came in by various routes within 

 a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes after, except some few who were nowhere. 

 I was much pleased to see Mr. Hanison, junior, of Snelston Hall, riding 

 straighter than most there. I suppose he put on too much steam at first, as he 



was not to be seen the last hour. 



NiMKOD Junior. 



The name of the Rev. German Buckston, now men- 

 tioned, was at one time a household word in Derbyshire. 

 His grandmother was a daughter of the great fox-hunter. 

 Sir Edward Littleton of Pillaton, so he had a strong 

 infusion of hunting blood in him, and we all know the old 



* Lord Chesterfield's stud groom. 



