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to ground, in Eaton Wood, and dug him. But he bolted 

 between Fred Cottrell's legs, and they saw him no more, 

 which created a good deal of amusement at the time. 

 There was a frost from November 30th to December 12th, 

 and nothing much to mention till after Christmas. 

 Then, on December 28th, hounds ran at a tremendous 

 pace for twenty minutes from Philip's Gorse, beyond 

 Carry Coppice, when they turned down the meadows to 

 Windy Hall Wood or Wanfield Coppice. They went too 

 fast for every one except Lords Alexander and Berkeley 

 Paget, Col. R. Buller, Mr. Smith, Tom, and Charles. 



1868. 



After the New Year, sport was good, and there were 

 two or three runs rather above the average, but there 

 was one on January 16th which Mr. Walter Boden 

 is never likely to forget, for he and Brandy Wine, by 

 common consent, had all the best of it till they fell in 

 trying to jump about twenty feet of water below Etwall, 

 somewhere near the place where the Great Northern 

 Station is now. Lady A. Coke and Mrs. Coke might 

 have seen Mr. " Ned " Coke keeping him company, for 

 they were both out, as was ]\Irs. Meynell Ingram on Mickey 

 Free, who went well. Hounds ran at a great pace from 

 Sutton little gorse by Dalbury, over the brook, by Bear- 

 wardcote, round Etwall village, by Hilton Cottage and 

 Hilton Common, and back by Sutton church, eventually 

 giving it up in the Longford and Sutton road, after nearly 

 two hours over the cream of Derbyshire. It should have 

 been mentioned that the run really started from Sapperton. 



On January 20th, too, Mr. Walter Boden again, 

 this time in company with Sir Richard FitzHerbert, had 

 a good deal the best of it, when hounds ran a most 

 unusual line, up to the Brakenhurst. 



The meet was at Egginton, That gorse was blank, so 

 was Hilton. They found a fox at the Spath, and ran him 

 to ground at Sutton. Then came the piece de resistance. 



