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CHAPTER XX. 



AN UNLUCKY SEASON — BLITHBURY — FIVE FOXES IN SHIRLEY 

 PARK — MR. BLOUNT's FOXES — A HILTON DAY — ACCIDENT TO 

 COLONEL THE HON. W. COKE — FROM CROXALL TO ELFORD' 

 GORSE — DEATH OF LORD VERNON — GOOD RUN FROM CARRY 

 COPPICE — BYE-DAY AT SHIRLEY MILL — A GOOD DAY FROM 

 FOSTON— THE " SQUIRE's " HOUNDS IN BAGOT's WOODS — 

 FROM KINGSTON WOOD TO HOUND HILL — SPORT MODERATE 

 — A NEWBOROUGH DAY— A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED THURSDAY 

 — DEATH OF COLONEL LEVETT — COLONEL LEVETT — A RAD- 

 BURNE DAY — THE BOB-TAILED DOVERIDGE FOX — BARBED 

 WIRE — A GOOD FIVE-AND-FORTY MINUTES — A HILTON DAY 

 — HARRY BONNER RESIGNS. 



1898-1899. 



New names in subscription list were H. T. Alton, Abbot's 

 Hill, Derby ; M. Barnsley, Field House, Marchington ; 

 Captain Blackett ; H. Connop, Brailsford House, Derby ; 

 J. L. M. Elkington, Brailsford ; R. M. Hamilton, Dove- 

 ridge Vicarage ; Captain Hanwell ; J. Tait Johnston,. 

 Brailsford ; Right Hon. J. W. Lowther, M.P., Farley Hall ; 

 Mrs. Tremayne Miles, RoUeston Cottage; L. C. Picton- 

 Jones, Ingleby Toft ; Captain Rich, the Barracks. 



The staff consisted of Harry Bonner, huntsman ;, 

 Stephen Burtenshaw and Albert Martin, whippers-in. 



This season will long be remembered as the unlucky 

 one. Everything went wrong, yet no one could have 

 foreseen or prevented it. Harry Bonner came from the 

 Tynedale with a good reputation, and he Lad been Lord 

 Chesham's right-hand man as first whipper-in to the 

 Bicester. But repeated attacks of influenza undermined 

 his health, and he was not at his best in his one season 



