no 1885. 



Holts, scent failed as the evening drew on, and 

 we went home, leaving hounds near Plumley. 



April 4th. — 



A lovely day, and a good field met at 

 Holnest Pound. Passing the house, all the 

 covers around it were drawn, and we shortly 

 found a fox in a small cover not far from Six 

 Acres, but the name of it I do not know. 

 He ran well through Gordon's Gorse over 

 Sweethill's Common to Admiral Digby's planta- 

 tion, where we had him in view, and thought 

 hounds must surely have him, when he foiled 

 them by a sharp turn, and raced on over 

 Middlemarsh Common and into the Grange 

 Woods, in twenty-three minutes from the find. 

 Here we had a long check, which, in spite of a 

 careful and wide cast in the wood, resulted in 

 his saving his brush and in our going back to 

 very near the spot where we found him. In 

 Longburton Gorse we found a relative or friend 

 of his, who gave us a very pretty seventeen 

 minutes' gallop over the open to Butterwick and 

 through the cover, racing into Broke, where 



