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after the usual dodging about, as if after a bagman, the hounds were taken away 

 to Downs Banks, where they found one of a better class, which gave a ring or 

 two round, and then went off by Meaford Hall, up the meadows at a rattling 

 pace to Hey Fields, where they pulled him down in the open, after a smart run 

 of twenty-five minutes. The hounds were then taken back to the Banks again, 

 but no other being found ' at home,' they moved on to Moddershall. There 

 they were again successful. Reynard, after taking a turn or two round the cover, 

 made for Black Lake, by the windmill, and on towards the Meir, turned to the 

 right by Stallington Grange and the Hall towards Fulford, and then back in the 

 direction of Stallington, near which place he was run into. It was a fair day's 

 sport considering the number out. The North Staffordshire have had some first- 

 rate sport lately, killing plenty of foxes." 



