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as the Master, the Cokes, the two Lords Paget, W. Clowes, 

 Willington, T. W. Evans, W. Boden, H. Evans, and many 

 others, besides a troop of hard-bitten-looking strangers, 

 should have had enough in a ran where four days' work 

 was crowded into one. But the ears of the two last- 

 named and one or two others caught the strains of the 

 funeral dirge, though the sight was denied them. Tom 

 Leedham was the hero of the day ; never man went or 

 hunted his hounds better. He had a second horse, but, 

 as both his whips stopped at Kedleston, he had more on his 

 hands than man could do. Sir Thomas Gresley had two 

 horses, but both had enough of it. Mr. Bass had two, but 

 he was nursing his second horse. Grasshopper, from the 

 beginning, or he would never have seen the end. Sir 

 Thomas rode his hunter home, thirty miles, and Mr. Bass 

 rode back more than twenty-five. Tom declares that his 

 hounds would have done the same ground over again the 

 next day." 



As regards the last statement there is room for doubt. 

 It seems as if hounds had had about enough. Tom used 

 to deny stoutly that they w^ere too beat to break up their 

 fox, attributing their failing to do it to shyness at finding 

 only strangers with them. But he started home with 

 some of them in a cart, for one hound bit him in the 

 cheek, and he pitched her out, with a characteristic, " Dom 

 ye, now ye can walk ! " Others came dragging in a long 

 time after he got home, "proper tired," as an old kennel- 

 man said. Charles, who, as has been mentioned above, 

 got to the end of his horse, Charity, hours before, having 

 gone home to Kedleston inn, came out to meet his uncle 

 in a cart and drove him home. 



Of those who were in this great run, only Mr. George 

 Moore, of Appleby, now survives. Mr. Strutt met with 

 a tragic end, being caught in the water-wheel at his works 

 at Belper and killed. 



The next item of interest in connection with this 

 long-to-be-remembered day was the presentation of a 

 silver horn to the huntsman by Lord Alexander (Dandy) 



