186 GALLANT RUN WITH THE BELVOIR HOUNDS. 



brought away a scent at the gate in the top part of 

 the cover. They soon however found ; and the fox 

 came away along the hedge-row that runs from the 

 North-east corner. The hounds came out with* 

 another fox at first ; but hallooing them from him, we 

 laid them on the scent of the former, and ran him 

 very hard across the road that leads to Whatton ; 

 then turned to the right, and, crossing the Whipling, 

 came up nearly to the canal, two fields from Redmile 

 Bridge. Here we experienced a check, by the hounds 

 being overrode : but they hunted him forwards, and 

 he got up in view to the pack from some rushesf in a 

 field opposite to the Windmill, which stands on the 

 Bel voir side of the canal. They now set off at the 

 best pace, making a direct point for Bottesford Town; 

 and then bearing to the left, crossed the Nottingham 

 Turnpike Eoad, at the Toll-bar, leading to Elton, 

 leaving Bottesford completely on the right. Crossed 

 the riverj Devon ; and leaving the Village of Nor- 

 manton on the right, and Kilvington on the left, made 

 a direct point for Staunton ; but turning to the right, 

 went over§ the road that leads from Bottesford to the 

 North Road, up to Normanton Thorns. The fox had 

 skirted the cover without entering it, leaving it on his 



* This fox had returned into the cover; and we were lucky in getting the 

 hounds away from him. 



t Many gentlemen were thrown out at this point; and such was the pace of the 

 hounds from hence, that they never saw more of them until we turned back from 

 Gotham. 



i The only persons who leaped this wide brook, were Mr. Forester, and J. 

 Wing, a farmer ; the latter fell in the attempt. The rest of the field leaped into 

 the bottom of it, and got out at a watering-place for cattle, which fortunately 

 offered itself on the opposite side. 



§ The only check that occurred between the field where the fox jumped up in 

 view, and the point whence they turned back from Cotham, was at this place, 

 owing to their being pressed along a hedge-row. 



