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to many gentlemen, and made for the Canal Bridge 

 opposite : but being headed by a man there, he 

 returned through the cover, and away at the opposite 

 end. Two couple of hounds got away close to his 

 brush ; and the remainder hunted after them over the 

 river, and overtook them when within three fields of 

 Sedgebrook Village, They now again ran very hard 

 over this beautiful country, leaving Sedgebrook on 

 the left, with their heads direct for Barrowby Thorns : 

 after going within two* fields of that cover, they 

 suddenly turned to the right, and ascended the hill 

 which lies between the Nottingham Road and the 

 Thorns ; on the top of which is a clump of fir trees. 

 From this point, several horses dated their discomfi- 

 ture. The hounds, after ascending the hill, proceeded 

 without any relaxation of pace, leaving Barrowby 

 Town half a mile on the right, pointing for Gunnerby 

 Village ; but when they entered Gunnerby Open 

 Field, they turned sharp to the right; and, going over 

 a hollow that runs up from Grantham, they crossed 

 the hill on the other side ; went over Earle's Fields, 

 and came down to the canal, within two hundred 

 yards of the wharf at Grantham. The fox had 

 intended to nick a Swing-bridge,'}" opposite the toll 

 bar; but, having missed his point by three hundred 



* Previous to this point, be Lad been again twice viewed, and each time was 

 five minutes before the hounds. 



t This fox had shown a marked dislike to water during- the whole of his widely 

 extended course. At Muston Plantation, when headed from the bridge, he made 

 no other attempt to cross the canal, though it probably was his intention, at that 

 time, to make a direct point for the Woodlands, which he could have done with a 

 saving of five or six miles. Again, at the Grantham Swing Bridge, he was 

 determined, in defiance of the man who was upon it, to pass over it, and effected 

 bis purpose : and in crossing the river at Great Paunton, he did not go through 

 the river, but availed himself of a foot-bridge. 



