156 HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



Carrs, where he dwelt a few seconds. His bolt 

 was shot, and he went away again only a hundred 

 yards in front of the pack, who coursed and killed 

 him by Rauceby High Wood after a gallop of fifty 

 minutes. 



The brush was presented to Mr. Ashmead 

 Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, out for the first time with 

 these hounds, hunting from Grantham, where he 

 stayed the season at the George Hotel with the 

 Baroness soon after their marriage. Mr. Burdett- 

 Coutts had a good stud of hunters, which carried 

 him well to the front ; he hunted four seasons with 

 the Belvoir, and then abandoned the chase, dis- 

 heartened by a series of heavy falls. 



On November 12th the big pack of 18 J couple 

 trotted off to Sherbrooke's Covert, which on this 

 occasion held but one fox. " We were some time 

 in getting him away," said Frank, ransacking the 

 storehouse of his memory ; " he made a false start, 

 but at last crossed the Smite and ran in the direction 

 of Hose Thorns, bearing right-handed for Clawson 

 and Hose, and we killed him close to the house in 

 which Mr. Burton used to live. I have no doubt 

 but what he meant going to Harby Hills, but the 

 hounds pressed him so hard he had to yield up his 

 brush sooner. I certainly never saw hounds run 

 harder for 15 minutes, and but four of us were 

 with them, viz. Captain ' Bay ' JNIiddleton, Captain 

 Pennell Elmhirst, Will Wells and myself It was 

 charming ! " 



Grand sport resulted this season, and amongst 

 many red-letter days there was the run of November 



