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Callow Hill Wood, and lost at the Forsbrook road, between Field House and 

 Dilhorne, pointing for Blakeley Bank. Time, two hours and fifteen minutes. 

 Never a good scent, but a good fox. Distance, certainly not less than fifteen 

 miles. 



Monday, January 20th, Cation. — Found directly in Catton Wood, ran a ring 

 and through Walton Wood on to the Grove at Drakelowe. Here the hounds 

 hung for some minutes in cover, and we hunted slowly on towards Caldwell, 

 turned to the right and went on to Homestall Wood, and from this point we 

 never fairly hit off the scent again, though we heard our fox had gone on to 

 Lullington. A good scent on the grass, of which there was mighty little, but 

 none on the plough, which was hard at the top, owing to the frost last night. 

 No fox at LulHngton, and the same at Drakelowe, but we had run through the 

 Grove at the latter place, and a fresh fox had been viewed away. Heavy fall of 

 snow before I got home. 



Tuesday, January 21s^, Snelston. — Snow and frost. 



Thursday, January 23rd, Kedleston Toll-bar. — Could not draw till twelve- 

 thirty, owing to the frost, and even then it was really hardly fit to hunt. Found 

 a fox in Darley osier-bed, the hounds got away close to his brush, raced him up 

 to Allestree, and killed him. Found again at Allestree, had rather a pretty ring 

 down the meadows towards Duftield and back to the cover, through which they 

 rattled him, and he came out as if he meant going for Markeaton, but turned 

 back, and eventually went to ground in a large rabbit-hole. Trotted off to Langley 

 Gorse and soon found. The fox went as if for Radburne, but turned back before 

 he got there, and, the scent being very bad and the day late, we gave it up. 



Saturday, January 25th, Blithhury. — Frost. 



Monday, January 27th, Sudbury. — Found at once in the Coppice, and ran, 

 very slowly at first, into the park, and here the scent seemed to improve a bit, 

 and we hunted, at a fair pace, by Sapperton up to the cover by Potter's, without 

 going into either of these covers. From Potter's they began to run hard, up to 

 Middleton Park, where the fox turned to the left and then again to the right, bj' 

 the back of Cubley Church, across the Sudbury and Ashbourne road, leaving 

 Cubley Gorse to the right, where we came to a slight check on a wheat-field. 

 From this point they ran very fast over Birchwood Moor, to the right of Marston 

 Park, down to Boston, crossed the road and ran nearly up to Norbury station, 

 where he bore a bit to the left and crossed the Dove, just before the hounds, 

 opposite Dove Leys. A slight check occurred at the top of the hill, by the 

 Rocester and Ashbourne road, but they soon hit it off again, and hunted by 

 Prestwood, up to Wootton Park, where we viewed the fox by a farm-house, and 

 killed him under the wall of the cover, and within fifty yards of the main earths 

 he was making for. It was slow hunting up to Potter's, but from there they ran 

 hard to Cubley, and from Cubley down to the Dove it was very fast. Distance, 

 fourteen and three-quarter miles in all, and eleven miles nearly straight from 

 Potter's to Wootton. Time, one hour forty-five minutes. The fox never went 

 into a cover the whole way, and the hounds were never cast. 



Tuesday, January 2%th, The Henhurst. — Very hard and frosty, too much so 

 to hunt in the open, so at twelve-thirty we trotted off to the Forest Banks. 

 Found in the Greaves, and ran out towards Hanbury, but the fox turned back 

 and we soon lost him. Found again in tlie Far Wood, ran across Bagot's Park, 

 through the Woods, and back to the Banks, and, at a quarter past five, Charles 

 and I found ourselves alone in the middle of the woods, with a beaten fox before 

 us, and no light to kill him. Every one gone home and both whips lost. 



Four days frost. 



