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morning was spent in Middlemarsli Woods, 

 where foxes were plentiful, and afforded much 

 galloping, but all got off scot free. The sun 

 came out, and the going improved about two 

 o'clock, at which time we found a fox in 

 Whitehouse Gorse, running him with little or 

 no scent into Homebushes, thence over Stock- 

 bridge and Sixacres, on, touching Longburton 

 Gorse and the Common, and gradually to Broke, 

 and on as if for Ferney Down, which they left 

 on the left, and swung away to Buckshaw Brake, 

 and made a line along the river, but soon lost 

 it, and, in spite of " holloas," and a cast towards 

 the Holts, failed to recover it again. 



February 12th. — 



Found us at Haydon Lodge, where a brace 

 of foxes were found in an unusual cover — 

 namely, an oak tree. Both were run across the 

 Park, and one was soon killed, the other taking 

 refuge in a herd of deer, though a single hound, 

 Radnor, who got his nose bit for his pains, 

 nearly had him once. Went on, on the line of 

 another, through Hanover and East Hill, to 



