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whole place. Found him in Breward's Car, and ran across the Wirksworth 

 railway towards Duffield, but there was no scent, and we could only walk after 

 him. Ravensdale Park, the new gorse, Wilde Park, Brailsford, and Culland, all 

 blank ! 



Saturday, January 4i^, Loxley. — Very wet day. Found in the Park Cover 

 three foxes at least. Hounds divided, but at last we] got them together, though 

 by this time the fox had got a long start. Ran by Woodcock Heath, over the 

 Blyth, up to Handleasow Wood at Chartley, where we got on better terms with 

 our fox ; on by Shaw, through the corner of Fradswell Heath up to Sandon, by 

 Shaw's Wood, right through the middle of Hardewick Heath, over the Uttoxeter 

 and Stone road, through the Holly Wood, and Cotwalton Durable, and on to 

 within a few fields of Moddershall Oaks, where we whipped off, having only 

 eight couples of hounds, and the scent so bad that we had no chance of getting up 

 to our fox. We were with the hounds up to Fradswell Heath, but there, owing to 

 two impracticable durables, they gave us the slip, and we never got to thera 

 again till Sandon. Three couples of hounds got on a fresh fox at Chartley, and 

 the first whip had to go and stop thera, and at Hardewick Heath, five and a half 

 couples ran a fox back, and eventually to ground in the earths at Sandon, so that 

 we had to go on with only eight couple, and neither of the whips. Whether it 

 was our run fox or not which went to ground at Sandon it is impossible to say, 

 as we must have had, at least, a brace of foxes before us all the way from Shaw's 

 Wood. Another fox was seen to go into a pit-hole, dead beat, just beyond the 

 Holly Wood, and we went back to look for him, but of course he was gone. The 

 distance of this run from point to point is over nine miles, and must have been 

 at least thirteen and a half the way we went. The country was so deep that 

 no horse in England could have lived with hounds the pace they went. 



Monday, January 6th, Walton village. — Brace of foxes in the Grove at 

 Drakelowe, ran one round and round, and at last to ground in the Park. Tried 

 to dig him out, but could not. Found another fox in the fox-covert, ran very 

 fast alongside the railway as if for Seal Wood, but he turned to the right, back 

 through Caldwell, and on to the covert where we found him, through that and up 

 to the Grove, and here the scent turned so bad, and the ground was so foiled from 

 running about in the morning, that he got a long way ahead, and we could only 

 walk after him as far as Coton, where we gave it up, the fox having evidently 

 gone on to Lullington. 



Tuesday, January 1th, Spread Eagle. — A fox broke at once from Egginton 

 Gorse, crossed the brook, over Hilton Common, by Hilton Cottage, up to Hilton 

 Fields, his point evidently being for the Ash, but being headed at the Sutton and 

 Etwall road, he turned to the left and made his point, passing by the Ash, over 

 the Sutton and Radburne road, and went to ground in a new-made drain close to 

 the brook at Rook Hills, just below Trusley. A capital gallop of thirty-five 

 minutes, and quite fast enough for the state of the country. Drew the Spath and 

 Sapperton blank. Found in the Lemon hole at Foston, ran a ring at first, and 

 then went up the meadows towards Tutbury, crossed the turnpike road by the 

 Pennywaste almost up to Hilton Gorse, where we stopped the hounds, as it was 

 too late to go into the gorse. 



Tliursday, January dth, Radburne. — Drew the Rough, Parson's Gorse, Squire's 

 Gorse, the Nursery, and Newton's osiers blank. Found in a small plantation just 

 beyond the latter place, but, owing to false halloas and an unruly field, soon lost 

 him. Drew Bearwardcote, and then on to Sutton Gorse, where we found at once, 

 and ran by the Ash to Trusley and back to Sutton, but the scent was bad and 

 the fox worse, and we gave it up. 



