December Days 



in a pretty long experience, during which I have 

 seen my share of historic runs — one does not 

 see so very many in a lifetime after all — I have 

 seen more of them in December than in 

 February. 



Whilst on the subject of historic runs, I may 

 perhaps be permitted to remark, by the way, 

 that I never saw a historic run in January — a 

 somewhat curious experience perhaps. I have 

 seen one in November — a couple of the fastest 

 gallops I ever saw in March — one a six-mile 

 point in twenty-eight minutes and the other 

 nearly six miles as hounds ran in half an hour ; 

 and once I saw a historic run in April, a good 

 point, top pace with a kill in the open and only 

 two men with hounds when the fox was killed, 

 though four or five more turned up before he 

 was eaten. 



This, however, by the way. December be- 

 ing once fairly in, the run of the season may 

 come any day. If the weather has been fairly 

 open and there has been a fair holding scent on 

 most days, by the middle of December foxes 

 will have got quite on the look out for the 



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