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WiLLouGHBY DE ^^^ ^^^^ ^" ^^^ ^^^^' ^ "^"^ ®^ ^^^^ genuiiie sort com- 

 Broke. menced. Below Warinington they passed at a merry 



pace, and leaving Page's Gorse to the left, went over 

 a good line right into Mollington Wood. Here he did 

 not stay a moment, bat passed straight through, over 

 the Farnborough and Southara Roads, straight down 

 to Claydon Crossing. Here they had a somewhat 

 A narrow escape, narrow escape, as the down train was passing, and at 

 the same time the hounds checked. But the driver 

 had his iron horse well in hand, and pulled it to a 

 standstill while the hounds were casting. The check 

 was not destined to be of very long duration, and they 

 were soon off and ran by Claydon, over the canal and 

 the Aston brook, which obstacle stopped the fun for a 

 good many. Still keeping straight a-head this grand 

 fox led the field at a good pace by Appletree, over the 

 Daventry Road a quarter of a mile south of Chipping 

 Warden, and crossing the Cherwell ran into Edgcote 

 Park. Pushing him along the Park, they ran him into 

 the covert near the keeper's house. Through this he 

 rattled, and after executing a short ring he went to 

 ground exactly one hour and fifty-five minutes from 

 White's Bushes. The line was an exceptionally fine 

 one, as I need hardly remind my readers, and the 

 distance must have been ten miles. Taking the two 

 events together the hounds were running, except 

 for one short interval, for three hours and a half. 

 Among those who went well and were present at the 

 finish were Lord Willoughby, who throughout was in 

 his place with the hounds. Col. Molyneux, Capt. 

 Benyon, Mr. Jenkins, Major Waterhouse, Mr. G. 

 Norris, Mr. F. Wood, and Mr. F. Page. It is hardly 

 necessary to say that the stiff fences and the water 

 obstacles scattered the large field far and wide, and 

 only about a dozen were left to tell, from personal ob- 

 servation, what were the concluding items of one of the 

 finest hunting runs ever seen, and hunted as well as 

 hounds could possibly hunt. 



