1894] THE GREAT WINSTER RUN". 203 



there were neither woods nor buildings for a hiding-place. A man in the service 

 of Mr. John Wright of Gratton saw the fox one field from the point where 

 we whipped off, lying, dead beat, at full length on the top of a wall. On being 

 approached, he jumped down and limped, footsore, away. Evidently, he had 

 baffled hounds by running along the top of the wall, and lying where a stone was 

 missing. As Leedham cast all round the point where hounds threw up, they 

 must have gone close to the hiding-place, but doubtless on the wrong side for the 

 wind. This was not the first time he had run along the top of a wall, as a short 

 time before the finish hounds were running in scent on both sides of a high wall. 

 All will now be glad that Mr. Wright's man did not betray the wily one, for he 

 fairly saved his brush, and we hope will live to again try conclusions with the 

 Meynell. I hear that the High Peak Harriers, on a recent visit to Middleton 

 Common, found a fox, and ran him close to Atlow. Probably this was the same 

 animal, and it accounts for the very straight line he took back again to his home 

 in the Peak. 



I am indebted to Mr. W. R. Holland, who no longer follows the Meynell, for 

 the information I am able to give above. 



Those who got to the fioish out of a large field were 

 Mr. and Mrs. Fort, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Charrington, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Frank Cooper, Mrs. Walter Boden, Mrs. Hartley, 

 the Misses Violet and Geraldine Mosley, Colonel Cavendish, 

 Messrs. Henry Boden, E. J. Bird, Gilbert Crompton, 

 Gerald Hardy, Herbert Holland, A. J. Maynard, W. T. 

 Eoden, G. Schwind, C. A. Wallroth, R. Waite, A. Walkden, 

 a farmer, and the Hunt servants. If any one's name has 

 been omitted, the writer tenders his humble apology. It 

 is difficult to remember horses so long after the event, but 

 Mr. Fort was riding Pugilist, Mrs. Fort Ambassador, and 

 Mr. Maynard Stepping Stone, only bought at Leicester 

 on the previous Saturday. Every hound was up at 

 the finish. 



A. 0. WorvTHINGTON. 



Mr. Worthington, whose portrait appeared in the 

 County Gentleman on January 6th, 1894, is thus described : 



" Mr. Albert Octavius Worthington, who is the fourth 

 son of the late Mr. William Worthington, of Newton Park, 

 Derbyshire, is a good specimen of the all-round sportsman. 

 Born in 1844, he was educated at Repton, and, for two or 

 three seasons, played for his school eleven. On the 

 formation of the Derbyshire and Staffordshire County 



