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hunt servants three months' notice when 

 possible. 



Treadwell had hunted the hounds for a very 

 short time when the run took place which is 

 still remembered as "The great Blowing Stone 

 Run," but which would be more properly- 

 termed the Milton Hill run. 



We believe that only two survivors of this 

 run remain, Mr. Charles Morrell, who has 

 since been Master of many packs (the Led- 

 bury, 1 87 1 to 1876; Worcestershire, 1876 to 

 1879. He then purchased the harriers which 

 the late Mr. Everett, of Besselsleigh, had kept, 

 and became Master of the S. Oxfordshire, 

 1884 to 1887) ; and the Rev. Samuel Mount- 

 joy Smith, Vicar of Harwell, who is one of 

 the oldest followers living of the Old Berk- 

 shire. The hounds met in March, 1864, at 

 Steventon Green. They found in Milton 

 Hill Gorse. The following is Mr. Morrell's 

 account of the run : — 



" From the gorse hounds ran very fast 

 through Hendred Cowleaze, and over the 

 canal by Wantage Road Station, nearly to 

 Denckworth. There they checked ; the fox had 

 turned short to the left. John Treadwell cast 

 to the right towards the village, but failed to 

 hit the line of his fox, he then came back and 

 recovered the line along the brook side (I 

 remember all this well, as I was on a bad 



