30 The Sedgefield Country 



Viscount Castlereagh, Lord Henry Vane Tempest, General 

 Hardinge, Mr. Rolleston, Captain Joe Fife, Major Allison, 

 Messrs. G. Waldy, R. Johnson, etc. Fox Hill covert was 

 first called upon, and provided one of the stoutest foxes that 

 has ever left its well-known shelter. " He left on the north 

 side," to quote the words of one who saw every inch of the 

 run (the writer not being present that day), " and with a 

 capital and improving scent, ran past Pitfield to Mr. Trotter's 

 preserves at Woogrey ; thence across the Bishopton road to 

 Lee Close, skirting which, he turned eastwards over the 

 Stillington bottom and beck to Bishopton whin ; disdaining 

 that shelter, he passed Redmarshall on the left, and turning 

 south, made his point to Jack Sutton's coverts. About this 

 time up jumped a fresh fox in the middle of a fallow field, 

 but, with the exception of two hounds, the pack took no 

 notice of him, and the whipper-in being handy, all were 

 soon on the right line again. We were now at Elton, 

 where our fox was headed, and pointed for Mr. Page's 

 farm and Howden Hall, where he turned west again, and 

 went nearly to Redmarshall, and thence by Two Mile 

 Houses to Hartburn earths. Not finding sanctuary there, 

 he made the best of his way back to Sutton's whin, thence 

 to Clement's whin and on to Carlton Carrs, where he was 

 viewed and holloaed back. Again he skirted Clement's whin, 

 then made his way through Grey's plantation to Hardwick 

 farm and Two Mile Houses, and hounds finally pulled him 

 down in Sandylees covert, after two hours and twenty-five 

 minutes' continuous and brilliant hunting. Though the line 

 was not straight, and ancient scenes were re-visited, yet no 

 one, who loves hunting for hunting's sake, could have ob- 

 served better evidence of the wiliness of reynard to defeat 

 his relentless pursuers, of the staunchness and fleetness of 



