SEASON 1879-80. 



FIBST CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. 



performance in public ; and took place at Cossington. The 

 afternoon was quite up to ordinary November sample. The 

 morning was merel}' thus — Two old foxes at Cossington 

 Gorse ; and afterwards two cubs killed out of the many at 

 Thrussington AVolds. The palates of the pack having been 

 thus duly whetted, they went to Walton Thorns to seek 

 a run — and found it. An old fox left westward, and over 

 a rough and varied country beyond Seagrave gave them three- 

 ouarters of an hour good hunting, to bring them round 

 to Cossington Gorse. Pushed out from there, he beat them 

 on the return journey. Stragglers and missing were all re- 

 covered bj' the way. There had been various disasters in the 

 early part of the run ; and hurrying sportsmen had scarcely 

 vouchsafed as much sympathy as they might have done. But 

 dismounted horsemen Avere now directed towards the parish in 

 whose direction their steeds were last seen careering. Sym- 



