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that ever rode with the Belvoir, well carried by a 

 red-roan mare, Gingerbread, an undefeated fencer, 

 who subsequently became the property of Lord 

 Henry Bentinck. The line was exactly the same, 

 fence for fence, across the steeplechase course below 

 Lenton, taken the opposite way to which it is ridden 

 in a chase. The guard rails were up and wings 

 to the fences, in readiness for the meeting which 

 took place that same week, the workmen giving a 

 cheer and waving us on, as we rode by ; for the fox 

 had passed within a hundred yards of them, taking 

 a line about a quarter of a mile parallel and west of 

 the far-famed Lenton Brook. It was an occasion 

 when all seemed to be going well, for hounds who 

 never required much help were travelling in a straight 

 line over an undulating grass country, so that to 

 hesitate was to be lost for the day. Well in front 

 with the master was Lord Willoughby de Eresby, 

 again riding Maid-of-all-Work; Lord Edward 

 Churchill, Mr. Thomas Heathcote, on a mealy bay- 

 horse, "the Earl"; Mr. Arthur Hutchinson, Mr. 

 George and Henry Hunt, Mr. Ernest Chaphn, Major 

 W. Longstaffe, and Mr. Edgar Lubbock. Very deter- 

 mined too was Mr. Jackson, riding a roan mare, 

 going a line of his own, getting some very strong 

 wide fences below Lenton Vicarage when in the pas- 

 tures near the brook. Mrs. Baird, Mrs. Blair, and 

 Mrs. Cecil Chaplin held good places in this stirring 

 gallop; and the hunting blacksmith was useful, 

 riding his pony at the tail of the hunt, picking up 

 Lord Willoughby de Eresby' s hat, which he lost 

 when jumping under a tree. 



Away hounds silently raced out of one parish 

 into another, away from the grass on to the plough, 

 below Hanby and Sapperton village, driving along 

 at a fair hunting pace to the Heydour Southings, 



