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There is a good ford there, but no one seemed to know of 

 it, for the Field galloped off for Woodford, and crossed, 

 catching hounds to the right of the back road to Marching- 

 ton. They ran on slowly past Field House, over the 

 Marchiugton brook and up to Woodroffe's Cliff, where 

 they were stopped. It was a good sort of hunting run of 

 two hours. The very next day, February 6th, they ran 

 from Chartley Gorse to Fulford Heath, estimated at a seven- 

 mile point in forty-two minutes. Anyhow, it was fast 

 enough, though the fox beat them. 



Another interesting event, which deserves to be 

 chronicled, was Sir Peter Walker's dinner at Osmaston to 

 the Meynell Hunt. It was a most successful affair, and a 

 very good idea of the host's, who intended it for a sort of 

 record. All the guests were weighed, and their names and 

 weights duly entered in a book. The latter have probably 

 altered a little by this time. The names were Lord Bagot, 

 Colonel the Hon. W. Coke, Hon. George Allsopp, Mr. 

 Hamar Bass, M.F.H., Mr. Walter Boden, Mr. Henry 

 Boden, General Fowler Butler, Major Blacker, Mr. E. J. 

 Bird, Mr. Sacheverell Bateman, Mr. Frank Brace, Colonel 

 Cavendish, Mr. J. F. Campbell, Mr. Hugh Charrington,^ 

 Mr. A. Grossman, Mr. Gilbert Crompton, Mr. Arthur 

 Chetwynd, Mr. Frank Cooper, Mr. A. C. Buncombe, 

 Captain Herbert Dugdale, Mr. Richard Fort, Deputy- 

 Master ; Colonel Fleming, ex-Master Dove Valley Harriers ; 

 Mr. Dudley Fox, Mr. Lionel Gisborne, Mr. Gerald Hardy, 

 Mr. Charles Hartley, Mr. E. C. S. Holden, Captain H. 

 Holland, Mr. A. Knowles, Mr. T. P. Kempson, Mr. 

 Godfrey Meynell, Mr. E. J. Maynard, Mr. William Power, 

 Mr. F. W. Peacock, Mr. J. L. Pandall, Mr. C. W. Jervis 

 Smith, and Mr. John Smith. The only drawback to the 

 entertainment was that frost stopped hunting on the 

 Monday following. 



All this, however, of right, belongs to the season that 

 is past, and it is time to deal with the present one. 



The opening day, October 29th, was marked by a good 

 run from the Aldermoor at Sudbury, by Somersal Herbert, 



