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CHAPTER III. 



THE OPENING DAY — GOOD YOXALL DAY — THE " BEAUTY^ " 

 BALL — GOOD RUN FROM BARTON-BLOUNT — FAST GALLOP 

 FROM THE PENNYWASTE. 



1879-1880. 



This year was remarkable for the lateness of the harvest. 

 They did not begin cub-hunting till September 13th, and 

 wheat was still standing in the fields at Hoar Cross on 

 November 3rd. This was not quite so bad as one year 

 previous to this, when Mr. Feilden at Coxbench sowed a 

 crop of beans one year, cut them the second, and harvested 

 them in the third, the last-mentioned operation being 

 carried on in January in a hard frost ! 



This was also the year of Mr. Hamar Bass's marriage to 

 the Hon. Louisa Bagot. 



On October 27th hounds found a fox in the Potlucks, 

 Radburne, ran by Sutton and Barton, and killed in the 

 road at Church Broughton, after a good hour and twenty 

 minutes. When they began regular hunting at Sudbury 

 on November 3rd, they had killed ten brace of cubs. 



" Needwood " is again to the fore with a description 

 of the opening day, and he mentions, amongst those who 

 were present, " Lord Waterpark, Mr. Clowes, Mr. Meynell, 

 Lord and Lady Parker, Colonel Buller, Colonel and Lady 

 Gwendolin Chaplain, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allsopp, 

 Colonel and the Misses FitzHerbert, Mr. and Mrs. Jervis 

 Smith, and Messrs. A. W. Lyon, J. Levett, Tonman Mosley,. 

 A. 0. Worthington, Kempson, A. H. Colvile, Broadley 

 Smith, F. H. Cotton, Cumming, W. Boden, T. H. Smith, 

 and many others, not forgetting old Tom Leedham, whose 



