1876] SPORT SPOILED AT PtADBURNE. 377 



This was on January 6ih, and ought to have proved 

 a lesson to the field, for, after spoiling their own sport for 

 that day, they had to wait till Tuesday, January 18th, 

 for another, frost intervening, 



Tuesday, Sudbury. — Lake Bank, Park, Bottoms, and Alder Car blank. One 

 fox in the Coppice, which went to ground immediately in the Park. Sapperton 

 blank. Found a very bad fox at Foston, which kept ringing about for more than 

 an hour, and was, at no time, more than one mile and a half from where we 

 found him. 



Tlmrsday, Elvaston. — Found several foxes, ran one along the meadows to 

 Alvaston, and kept dodging about among the gardens. Got on a fresh fox by the 

 Lodge gates, ran a ring through the gi'ounds, and hunted him up to Chellaston, 

 and killed him in the covert. Found in the Stenson Fields, ran nicely up-wind 

 to Findern, where the fox turned back, and we hunted him slowly back to where 

 we found him, rattled him about in the covert, forced him out, and ran him up to 

 the Pastures, where we had to whip ofl'in the dark, 



Saturday, Blithhury. — Frost, 



Monday, January 24:th, Drahehwe. — Drew all the coverts without finding 

 till we came to the osier-bed by the Park side, and then hunted a fox from there 

 to Scale Wood, but could not show a line into it. Found at Lullington and ran 

 to ground at Netherseale, Found at Catton, hunted up to Drakelowe, with a bad 

 scent, and went home. 



Tuesday, Bradley. — Too foggy to draw there. Went down to Culland, but 

 did not find. The same at the Reeve's Moor, and, as John Shaw's funeral 

 was going on at Longford, we trotted off to Shirley Park, Found there at once, 

 ran a mile ring by Rodsley into Longford Car, forty minutes. Went away ^vith 

 what proved to be a fresh fox, and ran him another fifty minutes, 



Thursday, Kedleston. — Several foxes in Breward's Car, Went away with one 

 towards the Lilies, turned to the left, through Eavensdale Park, back almost to 

 Breward's Car, where he turned to the right, and we lost him at the back of the 

 gardens at Kedleston. Drew Allestree blank. Found in Colvile's Covert, ran 

 him about for a few minutes in covert, when he went away and we killed him in 

 Allestree village. He appeared beat when he came out of the covert, and my 

 belief is that it was the same fox we hunted in the morning. Found in Langley 

 Gorse, ran a ring by the village and up to the Vicar Wood, then on by Dr, 

 Peach's house almost to Parson's Gorse, where he turned to the right, ran nearly 

 to Brailsford, by the Culland Plantations, and on to Ednaston, where, I fancy, 

 he went to ground m a rabbit-hole, but the scent, at no time good, failed almost 

 entirely at the last. Good day's sport, 



Saturday, (Jhartley. — Fog. 



Monday, January 31s^, Rangemore. — Found on the hill side beyond the 

 keeper's house, ran through Knightley Park to the Henhurst, where the fox was 

 headed short back by the keepers shooting, and we could make no more of him. 

 Found in the Rocket Oak, chopped one fox, ran a ring with another, back into 

 the covert and killed him. Found again at Rangemore, ran about a bit, and 

 finally killed him in the Rocket Oak Covert. Dunstall, Yoxall Lodge, and 

 Byrkley Lodge blank. 



Tuesday, February 1st, Elvaston. — Ran a fox about the place for some time 

 and killed in the gardens. Found a fox at Aston, ran very pretty up to Elvaston, 



