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A day or two afterwards there is a mention of his 

 brother-in-law, Captain the Hon. Harry "Wood, being out. 

 He was a good sportsman and very fine horseman, who 

 hunted a Q-ood deal with the hounds. 



The 28 th was a day of misfortunes, for Mr. West of 

 Derby, when galloping across Foston Park at the end of 

 the day, struck his head against the bough of a tree and 

 was killed. The wind was blowing a storm of rain 

 against his face, and he was holding his head down to 

 avoid it, and consequently did not see a bough, which 

 struck him full on the top of his head. ]\ir. Nathaniel 

 Curzon's groom broke his leg. 



The last day of the season was spent in Bagot's 

 Woods. Foxes killed, nineteen and a half brace ; run to 

 ground, seven ; number of hunting days, sixty. 



1869-1870. 



The opening day was on October 25th, and sport was 

 only moderate for some time. The Kadburne days were 

 the great attraction for strangers, and on December 9th 

 there was an unusually large contingent from Melton, 

 including Mr. and Mrs. Musters, and Gillard. There was 

 rather a nice ring from Eadburne Rough to Brailsford and 

 back, and Messrs. Dancey and Coupland had each the 

 misfortune to break a leg. 



The first day which is at all out of the common run in 

 the New Year, 1870, was a good forty minutes on a Blyth- 

 bury day. The fox took them an unusual line from Pipe 

 Wood, through Pear Tree Gorse, by the Old Wood, ta 

 Bellamoor. Hence he crossed the canal, railroad, and river, 

 and went straight to ground at Wolseley Park. Then 

 again on the 18th, from Kingston Woods, they had a good 

 ringing hunt, running pretty much all day, till Tom broke 

 his leg, when they stopped the hounds and went home. 

 The extraordinary thing about this is that he was out on 

 February 24th, which is a rapid recovery for an old man 

 going on for seventy, and broke it again ! The first 



