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where the fox was headed back to Upper 

 Swell, and made his point straight up the 

 hill to Foley's Gorse, and in one hour and 

 thirty minutes the gallant pack ran into him 

 in the farmyard at Donnington. The Craw- 

 thorne not holding a fox they went on to 

 Sezincote Gorse, from whence a fine fox 

 broke for the Crawthorne, leaving the village 

 on the left for Moreton-in-the-Marsh, leaving 

 that town also on the left, through Batsford 

 Park, across the turnpike road near Bourton 

 Wood, when, hearing the Cotswold hounds, 

 the fox headed short back for Lord Redes- 

 dale's park, where the hounds rolled him 

 over, close under the wall, after a clipping 

 burst of twenty-five minutes. 



Bleddington Mill being in the midst of 

 a good country, I made choice of that place 

 to see the hounds in the field. There was 

 rather a numerous assemblage, honoured by 

 the presence of the Prince de Joinville, the 

 Duke de Chartres, and a son of the Duke 

 d'Aumale. Lord Redesdale was also among 

 the number, and his interest in the proceed- 

 ings of the day did not appear in the least 

 to have diminished. Bruern Wood was 

 visited — a cover of some extent, where, in 



