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nection with Mr. Holyoake's first season. Some one 

 from Nottingham went out with the Ouorn from Bunny 

 Park and went with the hounds when they drew Deep- 

 dale, where they found a fox which was eventually lost. 

 At Kinoulton stone pits the hounds flushed a woodcock, 

 which was marked down by the gentleman in question, 

 whose love for shooting was apparently greater than his 

 keenness for hunting. Having marked down the bird, 

 he remarked to some one near him, " That woodcock 

 shall be mine in a short time," and he was as good as his 

 word. He left the hounds, rode back a mile, put up his 

 horse, borrowed a gun which had been loaded for a couple 

 of months, returned on foot to the place where he had 

 marked down the woodcock, flushed him, and with a mas- 

 terly shot carried out his previously announced intention 

 of making him his own. He then walked back for his 

 horse, picked up the hounds again, and, as the Notting- 

 ham Journal said, " finished the day's diversion like a 

 true British sportsman." 



Monday the 17th February 1834 saw Mr. Holyoake 

 Goodricke's hounds — he had by that time taken the name 

 of Goodricke, and was subsequently made a baronet — at 

 Brooksby, where a capital run came off from Cream 

 Gorse. Hounds settled down at once, running very fast 

 for Ashby Pasture and Thorpe Trussells, and then to the 

 left to Burrough Hill, through Little Dalby plantation, 

 and thence for Leesthorpe, running to Jericho Lodo-e, 

 and to the right of Bury Gorse, and near to Stapleford. 

 The fox then crossed the river Eye and the Oakham 

 Canal, and leaving Brentingby on the left, passed Treeby 

 Village and went on through Treeby Wood, Waltham 

 Thorns, and Newman's Covert up to Garthorpe Spinneys 

 to the left of Sproxton Thorns, and so to Buckminster 

 Park, "where two gentlemen of the Hunt scaled the 

 park wall and were up at the death of the gallant fox, 

 after a run of two hours and a half." The distance was 



