1889] A GOOD OPENING DAY. 159 



ENTERED IN 18S8— continued. 



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The new names in the subscription list were : F. A. 

 Brace, Streethay Lodge, Lichfield ; Mark Firth, old Park 

 House, Radburne ; Sir Charles Nugent, Bart., Colton, 

 Rugely ; W. S. Power, Longdon, Lichfield ; and Captain 

 Sankey. 



The opening day was on November 4th, and was rather 

 a good one. They found their second fox (having done 

 nothing with their first in the Lake Banks) in the Coppice, 

 went away on the Somersal side, swung round to the right 

 up to Cubley Stoop, and then, turning back through the 

 Coppice, killed their fox beyond the Aldermoor. They 

 found another in the osier-bed at Foston, ran fast down 

 to Church Broughton, back by Sapperton, over Sudbury 

 Park, crossed the turnpike road, on down to the river, 

 over it, and killed their fox at Castle Hayes. 



On November 11th they had a nice little scurry 

 from the Lime Kilns at Bradley, over Atlow Whin down to 

 Kniveton and back, and lost him. Nobody thought much 

 of this except Messrs. R. Fort, F. Newton, and L. Frank, 

 for no one else saw a yard of it. After that they had 

 another fair run with a mangy fox, which they killed, and 

 wound up with running fast from Bradley Bottoms, straight 

 to Hulland Ward, where they turned sharp to the left 

 nearly to Ednaston, and gave it up at Brailsford Gorse 

 after a hard day. 



There was a frost from November 26th to the 9th of 

 December, then one day's hunting at Blithbury, and not 

 much sport on the 10th, then frost again till the 16th. 



