run from Wal- 

 ton VVood. 



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They then recrossed the Evenlode, and crossing Adle- Hex. w. H. J. 

 strop Hill past Chastleton Camp, ran back over the 1862-1866. 



Vale to Wolford Wood and cut him. It was a capital 



hunting run, parts of it being very fast. 



On December 26th a good line was made from a meet AWroxtonmeet. 

 at Wroxton Abbey. They drew blank up to Garrett's 

 Bushes where a brace was found. They got away 

 very fast by Wigginton Heath and went as if for 

 Swalcliflfe. They then turned for Hook Norton, and 

 passing Hook Norton Lodge, lost him close to Which- 

 ford Wood, after a fast fifty-five minutes. 



February 17th, 1864, saw an admirable hunting run. An admirable 

 The meet was Wellesbourne, and a fox was found in 

 Walton Wood, but with this nothing was done. They 

 found again in Frizhill and ran through Moreton Wood, 

 back to Bowshot, where the hounds divided. One lot 

 slipped the whipper-in and were not stopped till they 

 got to Bricknell. The body were stopped after going 

 through Moreton Wood. The others having come up, 

 they drew Fletcher's coppice and had a capital hunting 

 run with an improving scent by Poolfields, Chadshunt, 

 and Kineton Holt, to Edgehill, along the top and 

 through ArlescoteWood, and over the flat to ground at 

 Burton Dassett. 



On March 31st the meet was at Lower Shuckburgh, ^ ^i,,y ^^q^, 

 Matthews being ill Mr. North made his first attempt Shuckburgh. 

 at hunting hounds in the open, and seems to have 

 made a successful effort. They found three in the 

 Gorse and ran away for the hill and on by Grand- 

 borough, Wolscot and Willoughby and the old Gorse, 

 then over the brook, and leaving Wolfhampton and 

 Braunston to the right, checked almost exactly at the 

 same spot where they had done on many previous 

 occasions. The master, however, hit off the line at a 

 bridge, and they ran on pointing for Ashby St. Leger's 

 and killed him at Bragborough. The season closed on 

 the 29th of April, the hounds having killed 33 brace 

 in 123 days. 



