Col. AnstriUhe}' Thomson'' s A faster ship, lyi^ 



about tlie best of it tbrongliout, got well over tbe brook, 

 into which Mi'. Frank Langham and several others fell. 

 On the top of the next hill the fox was headed, and turn- 

 ing along the valley, crossed the road between Thorpe 

 Langton and Great Bowden, quitting the Caudle on the 

 left. Rising the hill, ^^ Usurper" shot his last bolt, and 

 Mr. Hay kindly lent his rider a brown thorough-bred 

 horse to go on with, from whom two falls were obtained 

 in pretty quick succession. He galloped so well, how- 

 ever, that Mr. Thomson did not lose his place, and was 

 well with his hounds between Stanton \Yy vill and Cranko. 

 Carrying on well past Glooston village and through 

 Glooston Wood, Mr. Hay's animal found that he had had 

 enough, and Mr. Walter De Winton came to the rescue 

 with a comparatively fresh second horse. Happily, when 

 in difficulties with his fresh mount, ^' Rainbow " suddenly 

 turned up, as if from the skies, and the Master now felt 

 himself in paradise. 



The Harboro^ road had let in several horsemen who 

 had borne little of the burden and heat of the day, and 

 there was now little danger of the hounds being left to 

 themselves. Reduced at this point to thirteen couples 

 and a half, they ran through Keythorpe Wood towards 

 Ram^s Head, where there were two lines of scent. At 

 this time it was about four o'clock, one hour and fifty 

 minutes having elapsed, and eighteen miles of country 

 having been crossed since leaving Waterloo Gorse. 

 Getting a view, they ran on to Fallow Closes, past Mr. 

 Stud's house down to Slawston Cover, and pressed on 

 through the meadows to the Welland, the fox being one 

 field before them. Here they turned aloug the bank of the 

 riveras far as the road leading to Medbourne Station, where 



