"PAT" CUEEEY 69 



riding, ^Yhipped off the hounds after running 1 hour and 30 minutes. 

 Lord Arthur Butler, Henry and Stafford Howard, Alexander and 

 March all out. 



March 12, met at Coton ; could not find a hare. 



March 14, met at Histon Station ; found at once in an orchard, 

 ran two rings, then across the park and gardens, and killed after 40 

 minutes. Found again just outside the park, ran several rings, and 

 kept recrossing the railway line ; then away to the Ely Eoad and 

 beyond Histon, where we viewed her one field ahead of hounds, 

 when she was at a drain and probably went to ground, after 1 hour 

 and 50 minutes. 



March 18, met the beagles at Fulbourne Station ; found on the 

 grass common, ran two rings, crossing the road several times ; she 

 laid up in some cabbages, and putting her up the hounds ran into 

 her ; time, 1 hour 30 minutes. Found again, and after running again 

 for an hour and a half stopped hounds in Mr. Townley's coverts. 

 Mr. Townley was riding with us, and entertained us after the hunt. 



March 24, met at Barton Tollbar, a riding day ; found 2 hares, 

 and killed them both. 



March 30, met beagles at Granchester, a riding day ; we found 

 very soon, running pretty fast now and then, but the ground w^as 

 hard and dry, and we did not kill. 



Nov. 2, 1870, met at Barton Tollbar; Currey was hunting the 

 pack, about 20 men out ; found after drawing for an hour, at the 

 bottom of the hill ; ran quite straight for 20 minutes towards 

 Hardwicke, then turned and came back to where we found ; viewed 

 her, raced her up to the top of the hill and killed her after a fast 

 45 minutes, without a check, and without her once laying up. 



Nov. 11, met at Fulbourne; found, and ran for 25 minutes and 

 lost ; found again, but could not do much ; snowed a little. 



Nov. 16, a riding day; found a hare at Newton, ran very 

 prettily for 1 hour and 15 minutes, and lost in Colonel Wales' 

 coverts ; about 20 of us were out. 



I did not hunt with the Foot Beagles again, till they were 

 brought into Leicestershire by Mr. Edmund Paget during the 

 vacation. Our relations with the farmers round Cambridge were 



