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for timing — tliirty minutes from the start. Three fields then, 

 and next a fox jumping up from a hedgerow (was he heaten or 

 fresh ? They all look fresh when roused). Pace, plough, 

 and follow-on to Croxton Park — there to lose, as oft-times 

 before, at Launde Hollow, where earths and rabbit holes exist 

 unmolested. One hour, to a minute or so, from the start, and 

 a six-mile distance to any point in the last fifteen minutes. 



Passing over unsuccessful trifles, we come to the merry 

 scuffle from a new plantation near Saxby, time of starting 



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3.45. Two foxes away in view, and the pack laid on for Freeby 

 Village. Past here and to Freeby Wood is a tract seldom 

 tried — but very happy in all the ingredients of hunt and ride. 

 Goodly grass and capital fences — hounds really going. What 

 more would you have for an exciting ten minutes, and a total 

 twisting forty-five, to ground by moonlight near Freeby Wood ? 

 Particulars not needed. Lord Grey de Wilton seemed to be 

 cutting the way in the early burst ; while Captain Smith, Miss 



