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Saxby, and they killed him at Thorpe Arnold, 

 close to old Mr. Burbidge's house, after a capital 

 gallop of one hour and seventeen minutes. 



The longest run of the season came two days 

 later, when they found in Easton Wood, and went 

 away at speed past Stoke Park, a ring into Witham 

 Wood running hard for quite an hour, getting 

 their fox dead beat. Unfortunately a fresh-found 

 one jumped up in front of the pack and took a line 

 from Burton Sleigh to Lenton village, crossing the 

 brook, through Keisby Wood without a pause, 

 and on to Aslackby village, pointing for the fen 

 country. Here the pack were within fifty yards of 

 him, but a flock of sheep interposed and obliterated 

 scent. The pace to this point was very fast, and 

 tired horses were standing about all along the line. 

 Continuing on past Dowsby, hounds went straight 

 over the fens, and this good fox beat them near 

 the Forty Foot Drain. It was a wonderfully fine 

 run over a splendid line of country, for hounds 

 only passed through one covert from the start, 

 and that was Keisby Wood. The time from 

 leaving Easton was two hours and twenty minutes, 

 the distance as the crow flies is not less than 14 

 miles. 



Another great day on the Leicestershire side 

 came on January 24th, after drawing Coston Gorse, 

 when hounds went streaming away on the line of 

 a good fox towards Garthorpe, passing to the left 

 of Wymondham, running zigzag to Woodwell 

 Head, through this covert and down the hill to 

 INIarket Overton. Turning for Cottesmore a shep- 



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