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Radburne day in February saw no less than twenty-eight 

 people from Melton, including Lord and Lady Wilton, 

 Mr. Little Gilmour, and others, but they were hardly 

 repaid for their trouble. But had they been out the next 

 day but one, when hounds came to Kedleston Gate, they 

 would have seen how fast hounds could go. In fact. Sir 

 Richard FitzHerbert, who is no bad judge, says it was the 

 fastest " burst " he has ever seen. Mr. Meynell Ingram 

 says, " Found at Allestree, ran very fast by Colvile's 

 Covert, Farnah, Breward's Car, Ravensdale Park, to 

 ground in the earths there ; twenty-four minutes." This 

 was more than a four-mile point over a very hilly country, 

 and they were only twelve minutes running from Allestree 

 to Breward's Car, three miles and a half 



There was a scent all day, for, later on, they found in 

 Potter's, and ran quite as fast, if not faster, to Foston, in 

 twelve minutes ; then they ran back slower to Barton 

 Blount and lost their fox. On the 8th they had a good, 

 old-fashioned day in the woods, sticking to their fox for 

 two hours and a half, and killing him at last at Bank 

 Top. On March 7th there was a good day at Walton. 

 Finding in Walton Wood, they ran very fast nearly to 

 Lullington, thence to Haselour, where they checked after 

 a fast thirty minutes. Hitting it oft' again, they hunted 

 prettily by Elford and killed him on the railway, half a 

 mile from Tamworth Station, after a capital run of an hour 

 and forty minutes. Miss Georgiana Meynell Ingram had 

 not been hunting much this year on account of the illness 

 of her elder sister, who was not well enough to come out 

 at all. But the former was out on this day, and no doubt 

 told the Master, who was not out, all about it when she 

 got home. There is a printed account of it. 



Field, March 12th, 1870 :— 



This time-famed and gallant pack had the run of the season on Monday last. 

 The meet was at Catton, where a fox was found and chopped. The hounds were 

 then trotted on to Walton Wood, from whence a real varmint was soon got 

 away. Pointing first to Catton, he then turned in the direction of Lullington, but 

 changed his course for Edingale, and from thence held his way between Harlaston 

 and Haselour, and, crossing the Midland llailway, made for Elford, where he 



