RUN FROM "GIBBET GORSE." 53 



for Burley-on-the-Hill, and passing the blacksmith's 

 shop on the hill, where the roads run to Cottesmore, 

 Oakham, and Langham, he gets into the Burley 

 grounds, and seems to be leaving the house on the 

 left, and to be making for the fish-ponds. He, how- 

 ever, makes a sharpish double, and comes up .to nearly 

 where he went into the grounds. He then runs along 

 the right-hand side of the road leading from the 

 blacksmith's shop to Cottesmore, the riders keeping 

 the road, till he came to a cottage or two and some 

 small gardens by the side of a wall. Here there is 

 a check, and everybody seems to wonder where he 

 can be gone to ; all of a sudden there is a tremendous 

 rush of the hounds into a corner of the wall, and of 

 course he must be killed. But no, his guts are not 

 out, and everybody knows a fox is never dead till 

 his guts are out ; and though in the very midst of 

 the hounds, he jumps on to their very backs, on to 

 the wall, runs along the wall for some distance, whilst 

 hounds and everybody are in a state of wonder and 

 perplexity, for it was in a very queer and cramped 

 place, and he crosses the road at the turnpike-gate 

 leading to Exton, from the Cottesmore and Oakham 

 road. When across the road, he ran within half a field 

 parallel with the said road nearly up to Cottesmore ; 



