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left, ran into Brakenhurst ; here hounds divided, and no doubt we left our run fox 

 in a culvert under the road at the top of the Brakenhurst. Went on, running 

 hard, through Yoxall Lodge Hills and Byrkley Lodge over the road by the New 

 Inn, through Knightley Park, and stopped the hounds going for the Henhurst. 

 Capital run, ground very hard and hardly fit to ride. 

 Tuesday, Cubley Gate. — Frost. 

 Friday, Kedleston Oate. — Frost. 

 Saturday, Anslow. — Frost. 



Monday, December 29th, Brakeloive. — Found in the osier-bed, not much 

 scent, hunted slowly for an hour and ten minutes, and killed. The other Drake- 

 lovve coverts, Lnllington, and Homestall Wood blank. Found at Catton, ran a 

 ring nearly to Walton Wood, and lost. Walton Wood blank. 



Tuesday, Doveridge. — A most awful day, after an equally bad night. Found 

 in Eaton Wood, ran by Sedsall Rough and Marston Park into Cubley Gorse ; 

 here our fox turned back, but there was no scent, and we lost him. Bentley 

 blank. Found at Potter's, ran down to Burton, and on by the Spath, but could 

 do nothing. Drew the Foston coverts above the road blank. 



Thursday, January 1st, 1880, WilUngton. — Found in Spilsbury's plantations 

 (three foxes), ran by Burnaston very fast into Egginton Gorse — fourteen minutes ; 

 got him out after ten minutes or so, and ran him to ground in a sandpit by the 

 house at Burnaston. Trotted off to Sutton, ran a brace of foxes into some rabbit- 

 holes, which were not known of before, in the gorse, got one of them out, ran 

 him down two fields from the covert, but he came back, and the hounds killed 

 him. In the mean time another had gone away ; hunted him round by Etwall 

 down to Sutton village, and lost him. Hilton Gorse and the Lower Foston 

 coverts blank. 



Saturday, Yoxall village.— Found in Uough Park, ran very fast up to the 

 Brakenhurst, and killed — twenty minutes. Found in the Bath Covert, ran to 

 ground on Jaggard's farm. Went to the Birchwood, found in the bottom corner, 

 ran by Roost Hill up to the Chantry, turned back, and went straight and fast 

 over Bromley Park into Hart's Coppice, where we had a brace of foxes before 

 us ; went on with our hunted fox over the park, into, through, and out of Lord's 

 Coppice, back over Bromley Park into the Birchwood, through the Chantry, and 

 killed at the top of the hill above Newborough, First-rate day's sport. Last run, 

 about an hour and twenty minutes. 



Monday, January 5th, Chartley.— Found in Dromton Wood, ran by the 

 village of Drointon down to the plaster pits, on by the Castle and Turner's Gorse 

 into the long Ridge Covert, and back on to the Moss, and came to a long check 

 —fifty minutes up to this— in the road at the top of Drointon Wood, got on 

 him again, and killed him at the edge of the Moss by the railway crossing. Good 

 hunting run. Drew all the Loxley coverts and Philips' Gorse blank. 



Tuesday, Cubley Gate.— Found in the Holly Wood at Snelston, ran a ring, 

 and into the Holt, and up to the road at the top of the hill, and here, owing to 

 the fog, and it being a bad hearing day, hounds unaccountably slipped us, and we 

 never saw them again till we got up to Bradley Wood. The fox was said to be 

 twenty minutes before them, so we left him, and came down to Shirley Park. 

 Killed a fox in covert, came away with another, but there was very little scent, 

 and we could not get on with him. Found in the Sweet Oils at Longford, ran 

 through the Reeve's Moor, up to Hollington, turned back, and ran fast, through 

 the Car, nearly up to Potter's, but he turned and twisted like a hare, and beat us 

 on the foiled groimd. 



