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G Moore, junior, Charles Eaton, and A. Strutt, saw the end. Paladin was the 

 only horse that had been out from the beginning. Bass and T. Gresley were on 

 their second horses. G. Moore had been late in the morning, C. Eaton only out 

 from Kedleston. Tom rode Crusader and the Knight, and was with hounds 

 every yard of the way, till, on the hillside between Blackwall and Biggin, the 

 Knight laid down and died at Sim's. 



Other accounts and items of interest about the famous 

 run will appear in the next chapter. 



After such a run as this everything else is but leather 

 and prunella. Still, the following is not a bad hunt. On 

 March 16th they ran from Egginton Gorse slowly to 

 Radburne Rough, where the fox had waited for them, and 

 they ran him very fast by Parson's Gorse to Prestwood, 

 where he turned to the left by Weston to Ivy House near 

 Breward's Car, thirty two minutes and five and a half 

 miles. After this they changed and ran about Ravensdale 

 Park, the usual sort of line, till they lost him. 



On the 19th of March they were at Eaton Wood, and 

 ran that very fast ring which Lord Berkeley Paget and 

 Mr. Walter Boden are never likely to forget. Hounds 

 ran from Eaton Wood by Marston Montgomery, through 

 the Vernon's Oak dingle into Sudbury Coppice, down the 

 Bottoms, across the Palmer Moor, under Somersal-Herbert, 

 by Wardley Coppice, through the corner of Eaton Wood, 

 and killed him under an old thorn tree, in just an hour. 

 Tom Leedham said it was the fastest thing he ever saw 

 in his life. As he was riding Crusader, the horse was 

 evidently none the worse for his hard day on the 6th of 

 February, when he stopped and neighed in the middle of 

 Kedleston Park. 



There were several good days' sport after this, but 

 nothing exceptional, and the season ended on April 9th 

 at Wolseley Bridge. 



Foxes killed, seventeen brace ; run to ground, five and 

 a half. Hunting days, sixty-nine. 



About this time Mr. A. C. Buncombe, who came to 

 reside at Calwich in 1870, frequently came out with the 

 Meynell, though he also hunted with the York and Ainsty 

 and the Bicester, his old friend Sir Algernon Peyton being 



