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back by Callow Windmill, Kirk Ireton, Blackwall to 

 Biggin, wliere they killed him just where Tom's horse 

 died last year. Tomliuson of Bradley saw them catch the 

 fox, and took them home. Tom and Charles arrived 

 fifteen minutes after they had gone. None of the field 

 ever saw them after Bradley. The points on the ordnance 

 map make it fifteen and a half miles, and they were 

 rimnino- about two hours." 



Unluckily the master himself was not out, or he might 

 have seen this extraordinary run, of which Mr. Tomlinson 

 talked to his dying day. Mr. Meynell Ingram adds, with 

 pardonable pride, " Dog pack. All at the end but States- 

 man and Conrad." The latter was the only hound which 

 Mr. Kichard FitzHerbert could see when he got to the 

 end of the raw young one which he was riding, being at 

 that time the only man near them. 



There was a printed account of this same day in the 

 Field, which runs as follows : — 



It is just oue yeai' since the great run of more than four hours, which was 

 considered, and justly so, one of the most famous on record ; but the sport these 

 unsurpassed hounds have shown on the three Derby days of last week almost 

 exceeds anything even the most veteran sportsman can remember. Tuesday was 

 of course the Kedleston daj', when we tried first the Weston covert, which was 

 blank, and then Ravensdale Park, where a fine old hill fox was found, which, 

 after being aroused, quietly looked up from his comfortable bed, and made straight 

 for his native home at such a pace that gave no chance for a start. Th^ scent 

 was perfect, and the hounds went to work in such style, that, before twenty 

 minutes were gone, not a horseman was left in view of them, for over the hills 

 they went like flashes of lightning, and ran to Hopton ; the fox, turning, came back 

 by Calow Windmill, in a direct line for Blackwall, and, very strange, was killed 

 within fifty yards of the scene of last year's great finish. The only one up at 

 the time was Mr. Tomlinson of Bradley, who joined us soon after passing his 

 house, and who accidentally met the hounds just before Reynard gave it up, and 

 conveyed them to their quarters. 



The meet at Radburne ensures a large field, and last Thursday was no 

 exception, being one of the largest and most brilliant we have ever seen, with an 

 immense attendance of ladies in splendid equipages. Month after month the 

 sport here has been so good that no one who hunts ever thinks of missing it. 

 The Melton division was strongly and well represented, amongst them the very 

 popular master of the Quom, ]VIr. Musters, who went in first-rate style. The 

 Rough was drawn blank, and then on to the Brick-kiln Covert, where a fox was 

 found, and, after one or two false starts, he made for Kedleston, but did not get 

 across the Ashbourne road; pointed then for Brailsford, which he shunned to 

 the left, going through Wild Park, ]\Iercaston, Weston, towards Breward's Car, 

 which he left to the right, going on for Turnditch, coming round by the Lilies 



