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Johnson, and Nim Ives were thoroughly satisfied), up Long 

 Down, through Eartham Common fields and Kemp's High Wood 

 (here Billy Ives tired his second horse and took Sir William, by 

 which the Duke of St Alban's had no great-coat to return to 

 Charlton). From Kemp's High Wood the hounds took away 

 through Gunworth Warren, Kemp's Rough Piece, over Slindon 

 Down to Madehurst Parsonage (where Billy came in with them), 

 over Poor Down up to Madehurst, then down to Haughton 

 Forest, when his Grace of Richmond, General Hawley, and Mr, 

 Pauncefort came in (the latter to little purpose, for beyond the 

 Ruel Hill neither Mr. Pauncefort nor his horse Tinker cared 

 to go, so wisely returned to his impatient friends), np the Ruel 

 Hill, left Sherwood, from thence to South Stoke to the wall of 

 Arundel River, where the glorious twenty-three hounds put an 

 end to the campaign, and killed an old bitch fox ten minutes 

 before six. Billy Ives, his Grace of Richmond, and General 

 Hawley were the only persons in at the death, to the immortal 

 honour of seventeen stone, and at least as many campaigns." 



This assuredly must have been a most remarkable 

 run, and probably unparalleled, as it appears almost 

 impossible for a fox to keep before such a noted 

 pack of hounds as the Charlton was, for ten hours. 



The care, however, with which the track of the 

 fox was verified, and the narrative written with so 

 much circumstantiality directly after the event, 

 preclude any doubt upon the subject. The solution 

 of the mystery probably is, that the fox of those 

 days, as well as those who started him on his 

 journey at a quarter before eight in the morning, 

 were more enduring and robust than they are in 

 these degenerate days. 



