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that morning, going over some of the same 

 ground, but right well did the pack hunt the 

 line, the newly ploughed land keeping their heads 

 down, and at the finish every hound was there. 



After the break up of the frost in December, 

 a serious accident happened to Captain Lathom 

 Cox, for many years the popular adjutant to the 

 Mihtia at Grantham. His horse slipped upon the 

 half-frozen snow, when jumping a stone wall, and 

 falling on his rider's leg, caused a compound frac- 

 ture, laying him by for the rest of the season. 



The morning of December 28th was spent at 

 Rauceby Hall, scurrying about the home coverts 

 with a whole litter of foxes afoot, but in the after- 

 noon the scene was changed to a stiifer country 

 round Aswarby. Getting away with a fox, who 

 set his mask for the fen-lands, the field being soon 

 confronted by the yawning chasm known as the 

 Burton Padwadine drain, one was found to sacrifice 

 himself and horse, like Horatius Curtius — Mr. 

 Jolland of Newark, famous as the owner of that 

 good horse Clawson, winner of a big stake at 

 Newmarket, who twice attempted to capture the 

 Grand National Steeplechase. Riding a wonder- 

 ful jumping cob, he sent him at the wide drain, 

 landing as a matter of course in the middle of it, 

 but luckily getting out the opposite steep bank 

 with nothing worse than a thorough ducking and 

 the consolation of being the only one up when 

 they marked to ground in an earth by the railway 

 on the south side of Helpringham. The fox was 

 bolted and speedily killed, the brush being pre- 



