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impregnable retreat where they had to leave him 

 just as darkness was setting in. The finish was 

 in Cottesmore territory, a good twenty-five miles 

 from kennels at Belvoir. The night being dark, horn 

 lanterns were borrowed at Ingoldsby to hang to 

 the stirrup-irons ; for the roads were stonv. At 



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Grantham the hound-van and pick-axe team were 

 in waiting to take the hunt the last nine miles to 

 kennels, which were reached at 9-30, with only one 

 hound missing. 



Measured on the Ordnance map the run was a 

 good ten mile point from Newton Wood to Grims- 

 thorpe Park, as straight a line as was ever ruled 

 across a map. Considering the large area of country 

 covered during the day it was a good hound per- 



