1885. 115 



April nth.— 



This morning found us at Middlemarsli, and 

 there we spent the morning after two foxes who 

 did not mean to be caught, and the absence of 

 scent being greatly in their favour, we left them 

 there about two o'clock ; and, having run through 

 Berkeley Gorses, we found in Butterwick. Ran 

 out on the Buckshaw side and in again, and 

 away for Longburton and Sweethills, and round 

 by Holnest Park, back to Berkeley Gorse in 

 twenty minutes ; good going. Out from there 

 to Glanvilles Wooton and up to Newland's Farm 

 by Pulham Wake. Here he doubled sharp 

 round a cottage and went up into Mr. Dale's 

 cover, Haywood ; round and round it, hounds 

 catching at their fox. Finally they forced him 

 out, and though they were close at his brush 

 he managed to save it by going to ground 

 near the brook behind Round Chimneys Farm. 

 The total time was an hour and twenty-eight 

 minutes, of which thirty or thirty-five were 

 excessively fast, as the scent was burning in the 

 open, though it had been bad in the woods in 

 in the morning. 



