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Gougli's (than wkom no better preserver of foxes ever 

 lived) house^ a fox was found wlio went away by North 

 Kil worth House through Caldecott Spinney, nearly to 

 Misterton, where he turned to the left near Swinford, 

 left Stanford Hall on the right, South Kilworth on the 

 left, and crossing the Welland ran straight up to the 

 Pond Close at Hemplow. Entering none of the covers, 

 he made his way up to Welford toll-bar, the time up to 

 this point being fifty minutes almost without a check, and 

 the pace excellent. The hounds then swimming on by 

 Naseby Woollies, skirted Sulby Gorse, Naseby covert and 

 " Tally Ho," traversed Kelmarsh osier-bed and the 

 Church Spinney, and crossing the Harboro' road, made 

 for Johnson^s Furze. Headed here, the fox made for 

 Scotland Wood, but sticking to the siding he left it at 

 the middle gate on the road to Hazelbeach, passed 

 through Maid well Dales, skirted Berrydale, and leaving 

 Cottesbrooke on the right, also Creaton, Spratton and 

 Chapel Brampton villages on the same quarter, he ran 

 up to the Rev. G. Howard Vyse's garden at Boughton. 

 Here the hounds nearly caught their fox, but he 

 contrived to slip them, and making back through the 

 osier-bed, he got to ground in the main earths in 

 Boughton Clump, after running two hours and twenty- 

 five minutes. It was nearly an eighteen miles point, and 

 hounds must have run about twenty-six. Charles Payne, 

 after the manner of all Huntsmen, was satisfied, by his 

 peculiar mode of skirting all the covers, that it was the 

 same fox throughout ; and if so, a stouter animal never 

 lived before hounds. Out of a field of two hundred at 

 starting, not more than five or six lived to see the end, 

 amongst whom were Lord Hopetoun, who finished on his 



