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best run of the year the day after I returned 

 home. It was upwards of fourteen T he Pantry 

 miles, in a straight direction, and over run * 

 so severe a country that there were several 

 bad falls, and it was for some 'time doubtful 

 whether or not the coroner would not have 

 been in requisition. Mr. William Heysham 

 rode at a stile, which his horse refused. Mr. wiiiiam 



0. . i . . ., i Heysham. 



n turning nun at it again, lie saw Mr H 



the cause of his refusal : Mr. Hugo Miidmay. 



Mildmay was lying on the ground on the other 



side of it, covered with dirt, with his head under 



his shoulder, apparently dead, and an hour 



expired before animation was restored. The 



fox on that day was so pressed that he ran into 



a dwelling-house, and secreted himself in the 



pantry among the bacon. Foster said it was 



one of the severest and most brilliant day's 



sport he had ever seen with hounds. This run 



was with the small pack.* 



"Not having hunted last season in Hamp- 



* The Pantry run took place Jan. 11, 1825. " They met at Beau- 

 worth, and, without hanging in covert, or crossing the same field 

 twice, the fox was killed at Town Hill, three miles from Southampton." 

 A picture of the fox on the bacon-rack in the pantry was painted by 

 Mr. Collier of Chilland, and afterwards lithographed. Sawyer and 

 Mr. Scotland were first into the pantry ; and of others, those who had 

 the best of it in the run were Mr. John Taylor on Sealing-wax, Mr. 

 Samuel Taylor, Mr. George Butler on the Admiral, Mr. Frederick 

 Heysham on Ollipod, and Mr. Collier. Sawyer, talking it over, said, 

 " I think we all came down that day." Mr. Collier was a very good 

 sportsman; when hounds ran straight no man went better. — Author. 



