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but lost immediately. Killed a fox in Breward's Car. Ravensdale Park, the 

 New Gorse, Brailsford, and Culland blank. Scent worse each day. 



Saturday, Kingston village. — Found in Kingston Wood — a vixen — and ran 

 to ground in a pit-hole. Found again, but could not get on. Went to Bagot's 

 Woods, ran a fox hard, in covert, for half an hour, and had him, dead beat, but 

 unfortunately changed at the last moment. Found again in Lord's Coppice, but 

 hounds could not hunt at all directly they got on the foiled gi-ound. 



Monday, March 2^th, Draycott Cliff. — Found in the Greaves, ran to Hanbury 

 back through the Greaves, and on to Hollybush. Found again in Bull's Park, 

 ran to the Swilcar Lawn, out over the open towards Agardsley, back through the 

 woods, and to ground at Coton. Found again in the Banks, ran across Bagot's 

 Park into the woods, where the hounds divided, and we stopped them. Poor 

 scent. None at all on the plough. 



Tuesday, Eaton Wood. — Found and ran to the Lady Coppice, where most 

 probably the fox went to ground, but there was no scent. Found again in the 

 plantation in Sudbury Park, near the Kennels, ran two rings, and stopped the 

 hoimds, as it was a vixen. Killed a lame fox at Foston. 



Thursday, Etivall. — Found in Egginton Gorse, ran over the road up to 

 Etwall, and on as if for Radburne, but turned to the left by Sutton Gorse, and 

 within a field of Hilton Gorse, down to Marston-on-Dove, and here we had a long 

 check, as the fox had crossed the railway by a new culvert. Got on the line 

 again and hunted him by Rolleston in the direction of the Henhurst, where we 

 had to give him up, as there was nothing but plough, and the hounds could not 

 get on at all. Went back to Egginton, and found again in the Gorse, but the fox 

 declined to leave the covert. 



Saturday, Bretby. — Met at Foremark instead, on account of Lady S. 

 Des Vceux's funeral. Found in Gorsty Leys, and ran to ground in an old stone 

 quarry. Chopped a fox in Repton Shrubs, and went away with another. Hunted 

 him slowly nearly down to Calke, and lost him. Went back to the Shrubs, found 

 again, ran fast up to the house and to ground in a rabbit-hole. 



Monday, April 5th, Yoxall village. — Found at Wichnor, ran a ring by 

 Yoxall Lodge Hills, back to Wichnor, and lost him. Found several foxes at 

 Yoxall Lodge, stopped the hounds from a vixen, and eventually got into 

 the Brakenhurst. 



Thursday, Wolseley Bridge. — Found almost immediately, ran a ring, and lost 

 our fox. Found again at Pottal Pool, ran down to Teddesley and back. Drew 

 Shugborough blank. 



Saturday, Smallwood. — Foimd in Bagot's Woods, ran through the woods 

 and on to the Warren Covert at Blithfield, back into the woods, and finally he 

 went to ground in the Warren. Found again in the little covert just beyond, but 

 he went to ground in the same place as the first fox. Went to Hart's Coppice, 

 soon found, ran across the Park, back to the covert, where we left our fox, . 

 which was a vixen. 



Foxes killed, thirty-five brace ; run to gTOund, twenty-one and a half brace ; 

 hounds out, one hundred and eleven times ; stopped by frost, thirty-one. 

 Killed in regular hunting, seventeen brace. 



