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several more fresh foxes were soon on the move. Hounds were stopped, and 

 the never-failing Black Lake Covers gave us some more good sport late in the 

 day, when, owing to darkness coming on, we had to give it up. 



''November 25th, 1899. Seigh/ord.— Found on tiie Moors ; had a very good 

 gallop for fifty-six minutes, and beat us at Staftbrd Castle. Very nice hunt. 

 Found again on the Moors. Ran very fast for fifteen minutes, to ground in 

 William's Wood ; bolted him and killed. Drew the Cross-roads Covert blank. 

 Found in Yeld's Rough. Had a very sharp gallop through Hollins Wood, Hilcote, 

 and Badenhall, and stopped the hounds from going over the London and North- 

 western Railway, this spoiling anotlier good run. A very nice day, perhaps a 

 little too warm for bustling about, still we had a very enjoyable day. Had our 

 fox run a little straighter in the morning we should have liked it better, and the 

 fox from Yeld's Rough gave us a nice gallop in the evening." 



The following short account of the same clay's sport 

 is extracted from the Staffordshire Advertiser of December 

 2nd, 1899 : 



NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS. 



One of the best of many good days' sport was experienced with the North Staf- 

 fordshire Hounds on Saturday, when the meet was at Seighford Hall, near Stafford, 

 the residence of Colonel Dobson, who gave a breakfast to those attending the meet. 

 A large field included Colonel and Mrs. Dobson, Mr. Donaldson Hudson, Mr. and 

 ]\Irs. Davies Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan- Williams, Mr. and Miss Challinor, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Knight, Miss Moat, Mr. Birch, Mr. Fernie, Mr. Hollins, Mrs. Ridgway, 

 ^Ir. Kirkham, and several gentlemen from the Albrighton neighbourhood. A fox 

 was found in Moor Wood. He went away round by the Hall, straight past 

 Stafford Castle, into Albrighton country, and was eventually lost. Another was 

 ousted from the same cover, and for twenty minutes there was an exceedingly 

 hot chase, hounds finally killing near the cover from which he broke away. The 

 covers at the Fall were blank, but from Yeld's Rough there was a splendid forty 

 minutes' run, and it was only on account of darkness that hounds were whipped 

 off at Mill Meece. 



On November 29th, meeting at Madeley village, the 

 lady pack had a very fair day's sport, ending with a good 

 fifty-six minutes from Shaw's Rough late in the afternoon. 

 Boxall had a nasty fall near Wrinehill, from his horse 

 [)utting his foot in a hole, and had to be sent home in a 

 carriage, and was laid up and unable to hunt for ten days 

 or more. After this hunting was stopped owing to frost 

 until December 23rd. 



" December 2Gth, 1899. Doddington. — Found and killed in Chapel Wood. 

 Drew Lea Park blank. Found in Blakenhall Moss. Had a nice gallop to 

 Checkley Wood, and ran to ground. Got on to a fox that had slipped away, and 

 hunted him slowly to Finson'a Hayes, but stopped the hounds from going into the 



