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field Wood and Tortoisesliell Wood, to 

 Mockery Wood, where he was lost. 



On the 7th of February these hounds met 

 at Great Gonerby, a day that will long be 

 remembered with deep regret in consequence 

 of the sad fall the Duke of Rutland met with, 

 and which has so unhappily deprived his 

 Grace of the pleasure of hunting, it is to be 

 feared, for some time to come. A fox was 

 found in Gonerby Moors, and the hounds 

 hunted him with admirable truth and patience 

 an extensive ring, skirting Syston and Belton 

 Parks, back to the covert in which he was 

 found. They then drew Casthorpe Hills, and 

 a fox broke covert at the bottom, but turned 

 to the left for Gonerby, racing over the grass 

 fields at a great pace. It was there that his 

 Grace, riding his horse at a high and stiff cut 

 fence, met with the accident. The horse, not 

 clearing it, threw the Duke very heavily, and 

 Mr. Blackwood and others who saw it, and 

 went to his assistance, felt painful alarm of 

 the consequences. A conveyance was pro- 

 cured with all possible despatch, and his 

 Grace was taken to the George, at Grantham. 

 The bounds, on reaching Peascliff, were 

 stopped. It is scarcely possible to express 



