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riverside to Coton, where he turned up the hill, went straight through the Greaves, 

 by the New Lodge, through one corner of Parson's Brake, over the road towards 

 HoUybush, and here occurred a most extraordinary thing. Charles viewed the 

 fox in a grass field, and actually saw two couples of hounds roll him over, and, 

 when he got up to the spot, no fox or hounds were to be seen. A man working 

 on the Bank at Hollybush said he had seen the fox go down a ploughed tield, but 

 though we cast all round we could not hit off the line, and it was not till a week 

 afterwards that we heard that the fox had gone into a pit-hole and laid down. 

 It was a capital gallop of about forty minutes, and very fast. Found three vixens 

 and a dog fox at Needwood House, and fortunately got away without doing any 

 mischief. Drew Byrkley Lodge blank. 



TJmrsday, March 27th, Bagofs Park. — Found in Hart's Coppice, ran a wide 

 ring by Tomlinson's corner and back, across the park, into the woods, where we 

 got on a fresh fox, and were a considerable time before we got on the line of our 

 hunted one, he having evidently gone for Loxley and the scent was cold, so we 

 gave it up. Found another in a little covert beyond Hart's Coppice, but soon 

 lost him, the scent getting worse. Drew the Birch Wood and Boost Hill blank. 

 Found in Brakenhurst late in the evening, ran hard for forty minutes, and had 

 the greatest difficulty in stopping the hounds just as they were running into a 

 vixen, which must have had cubs laid up in the wood. 



Saturday, March 29th, WoJseley Bridge. — Found immediately and ran over 

 the Chace, and through Heywood Park to Shugborough, and lost him in the 

 covert by Stafford Lodges. Chopped a fox on the Chace. Found again, and ran 

 hard for an hour and a half all over the Chace, and finally gave it up near 

 Hednesford, as we had missed our second horses, and those we were on had had 

 enough, as it was a hot, close day. 



Foxes killed, twenty-seven brace ; run to gi'ound, eleven and a half brace i 

 hounds out, a hundred and eight times ; stopped by frost, twelve times. 



Foxes killed in regular hunting, fifteen brace and a half. 



