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rattled him along at a merry pace to Murki- 

 ston, and on to Ravensdale Park, where they 

 turned to the right for the new gorse, to Cross 

 Hands, and a dense fog destroying every par- 

 ticle of scent, the hounds could hunt him no 

 longer. Found again in Brewer's Car, and 

 away for Winely ; turned to the right to 

 Farnley, from thence to Keddleston Park and 

 back to the covert in which they found ; out 

 at the bottom again for Winely, but the fog 

 still prevailing, they were obliged to give up 

 their second as they had done their first fox. 

 An appointment for Radborne Hall, at all 

 times an attractive one, was more than 

 usually so on the 8th of February, reports 

 of the excellent sport with these hounds on 

 the three previous days having been circu- 

 lated most extensively. The weather, too, 

 gave promise of a hunting morning, and the 

 convenient distance from Derby enabled a 

 considerable number of visitors to consign 

 their imperial persons to the indulgence of a 

 railway carriage, and have their horses con- 

 veyed by the same mode of transit. There 

 were representatives from the Quorn, the 

 Atherstone, the North Staffordshire, and 

 peradventure from far more distant hunts. 



