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and the latter, fortunately, was uninjured. Carry Coppice was blank, but they 

 found in Philips' Gorse, and ran to Carry Coppice, where, on the return journey, 

 oddly enough, there was certainly a brace, possibly a leash, on foot. Hounds got 

 away with a fox, over the miry lane at the top, and he tried all the pit-holes 

 between the covert and the river, finally getting to ground in the one nearest 

 Field. And so another day came to an end with every fox accounted for. 



But Thursday, at Allestreo, was a horse of quite a different colour, for a worse 

 day's sport could hardly be imagined. Hounds chopped a fox in Allestree big 

 wood, and then drew Colvile's Wood and Farnah blank, and ran to ground 

 in Broward's Car. Then came a succession of blanks, Kedleston, Meynell- 

 Langley Gorse, Parson's Gorse, Potlucks, the Brickyard, and Radburne Rough, 

 where men have been at work, and so home. 



Then came Saturday, at Bretby. Perhaps some one who saw it will write an 

 account of the best run of this season, or, as some say, of many seasons. From 

 what the present writer can glean, hounds found in Robin Wood, and ran hard 

 to Repton Shrubs ; so much so, in foct, that it is said some horses had already 

 bad enough. Still, running hard, they went through Carver's Rocks to Pistern 

 Hills, where the first check of only two or three minutes occurred. Hounds, 

 however, soon hit it off, and ran on through South Wood and Spring Wood, till 

 they fairly pulled down a good game fox, in the middle of the field by Cole- 

 Orton Hall, after a splendid hound run of an hour and ten minutes, with only one 

 couple of hounds away, which turned up at the kennels before the pack got home. 

 One was badly cut, which accounted for her absence. Rumour has it that it 

 was only a very small and select party which was in at the death. 



" Fain would I relate their glory, 

 Name eacli favourite mount ; 

 But the scribe who tells tlie story 

 Was not there to count." 



So let each take to himself or herself as much credit as is their due, and 

 perhaps next week some one will give a fuller account, with names and all. 



Subsequently an eye-witness gave the writer the follow- 

 ing names, and if any one is omitted, he trusts the error will 

 be pardoned — Mrs. Walter Boden, Mrs. Charrington, Mr. 

 Fort, Mr. Maynard, Mr. Garnett, Mr. '' Bertie " Crompton, 

 Capt. Holland, Mr. Whittingham, Stephen Burtenshaw 

 {the huntsman), and Will Weston (first whipper-in). 



This was the best day of the season. 



Monday, April 1st, Ashbourne Station. After drawing Bradley Wood and 

 all the coverts thereabouts blank, hounds found a brace of foxes in Shirley Park 

 — a mangy one and another — but did no good with either. They then found 

 in one of the outside Snelston coverts, and ran out nearly to Hope Wood, but 

 turned short back into the Holly Wood, Snelston. Going away thence, they 

 ran out by the Stydd, and swung round to Cinder Hills, where they lost their 

 fox. 



Tuesday, Blithbury. They found at once in Pipe Wood, and ran to ground 

 about halfway between tlie Wood and Mavesyn Ridware. After drawing the 

 Lawn, Mavesyn Osiers, and the Stych blank, they found in Laurence's Wood, 



