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many of the hounds were covered with blood. Found in Carver's Rocks, ran 

 very fast through Smith's Gorse and the Pistern Hills to Spring Wood, ran about 

 for some time, went away and hunted within a mile of Ashby, where scent failed 

 altogether. 



Monday, Februari/ 0th, BHthbury. —Hnntedi a fox, with a very bad scent, 

 from a little covert near Cawarden Spring up to Wolseley and lost him. Coley 

 Coverts blank. Found in the osier-bed below Swan's Moor, could not run a yard. 

 Drew the Moss at Chartley, Newton Gorse, Newton Hurst, and Stanley's Wood 

 blank. 



Tttesdai/, Eaton Wood.— Had a capital forty-five minutes, round by Dove- 

 ridge, Wardley, Marston Park, nearly to Cubley Gorse, up to the lime-kilns at 

 Birchwood Park, and killed. Found in the Holly Wood, ran round about 

 Snelston for two hours, and lost on the foiled ground. Cubley Gorse and all 

 Sudbury blank. 



Tlmrsday, WiUmgton. — Drew the Potlucks, but did not find till we got to 

 Arleston, then ran hard over Sinfin Moor to ground at Chellaston. Good twenty- 

 three minutes. Killed a bad ringing fox at Aston. Went to Billington Hill, 

 found a wretched fox, ran him down to Shardlow, and killed him. Spent the rest 

 of the day in the gardens at Elvaston. 



Friday, Foston. — Found below the house, ran through the top coverts, 

 nearly to Sapperton, over Sudbury Park, under Boylestone Hill, where hounds 

 tlivided, part killing the run fox and part going on with one or two fresh ones 

 that jumped up in a ploughed field, and running through Sudbury Coppice, and 

 over the park nearly to Foston, and lost him. Sapperton blank. Found by Barton 

 House, ran by Church Broughton, up the brook side within a field of Potter's 

 Coverts. Hounds divided soon after the start, and three hounds killed an old 

 (log fox, and another lot went on to Boylestone, where we stopped them, and got 

 them all together again by the Dairy House. No doubt the fox we killed was one 

 of the fresh foxes that had jumped up in the first run, as three hounds turned 

 back with him, and had probably stuck to him all the time. Went to Longford, 

 found in the Car, ran nearly up to Shirley Park, bore to the left, to the Holly 

 Wood at Snelston, then back by Stydd and Yeaveley down the brook side to the 

 Car at Longford — about fifty minutes — on by the Hall and back up to Shirley 

 Mill, and stopped the hounds. Very hard day and horses all beat. 



Saturday, Draycott Cliff. — Found in Bull's Park, ran up and down the 

 banks for nearly two hours, and killed in the open below the banks. Drew 

 Tomlinson's Corner, Hart's Coppice, etc., blank. Hunted a fox that had gone 

 away from Field House Coppice into the Birch Wood, but he must have been 

 gone some time. 



Monday, February \&th, Chartley. — One of the wettest, wildest days I ever 

 was out hunting. Viewed a fox going into Longridge Wood, hunted him about, 

 but there was no scent. Found again in Handleasow Wood, but could do nothing. 



Tuesday, Bradley. — Found in Bradley Wood, ran under the road, and 

 parallel to it, up to Bradley, by the back of the house, and Bradley Bottoms up 

 to Brailsford Gorse — about thirty minutes and fast. Several foxes in the gorse ; 

 went away with a fresh one, ran up into the hills, and eventually ended the 

 other side of Kniveton. 



Thursday, Kedleston. — Ran through Farnah and Breward's Car, from Ireton 

 Wood, where we found, past the Lilies, and, leaving Kirk Ireton just to our left, 

 lost our fox near Biggin. Very few of the field pursued at all. Found in Ravens- 

 dale Park, ran fast into Breward's Car, by the Lilies, to Turnditch, where our 

 fox was chased by a dog, and turned back. Killed a fox in a patch of gorse by 



