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left ; and when we reached the top of the adjoining 

 hill, we viewed him two fields a-head. He now took 

 the road which leads to Long Bennington ; but turned 

 from it into the lane that leads to the left to Gotham ; 

 and leaving that, he made his point to the North 

 Road, which he kept on his right till close to Gotham 

 Village. He had now run ten miles, with the wind 

 directly in his teeth ; and all persons were unanimous 

 in considering it as a fine run, and in expecting 

 immediate death. They little knew the strength and 

 intentions of the animal before them. He had been 

 sorely pressed since he jumped up in view ; and finding 

 that his upwind course was no longer safe, he deserted 

 whatever point he had in that line, and turned back 

 down wind, from Mr. Evelyn Sutton's White Farm- 

 house ; by which measure he at first threw the hounds* 

 to hunting. They however recovered their terms in a 

 few moments ; and going back close to Long Ben- 

 nington Town, stretched away on a line for Foston, 

 until they reached the road that runs from the former 

 place towards Allington. They ran along it nearlyf 

 a mile, until they came to a small fir plantation on 

 the eastern side of the lane, in Allington Lordship. 

 Hence they turned away to the right by Bennington 

 Grange; crossed the Nottingham Turnpike-road, left 

 Muston Village on their right, and went up to Sir 

 John Thorold's Plantation. The fox came out in view 



* Mr. Cholmondelev, who had been thrown out ia the course of tlie run, 

 hearing the bounds returning towards him, looked for the fox, and saw him come 

 through a hedge close to him, and not more than two fields before the hounds. 

 He crouched for a few moments, and then returned through tlie hedge back 

 towards the hounds ; but of course speedily changed h s direction again. 



t Some men had viewed him in this lane, and he was then about four or five 

 minutes before the hounds. 



