224 HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



15th brought a good day's sport, a fox bemg roused 

 in Lentoii pastures, setting his mask for Ingoldsby 

 Wood, which brought the Lenton brook into the 

 gallop. The lead over was given by JNIajor Long- 

 stafFe, but in the valley below Sapperton all trace 

 of the hunted one vanished. With the afternoon 

 fox from Folkingham big gorse we had one hour 

 and thirty minutes of the very best going by Scot 

 Willoughby, Quarrington, Bully Wells, to the 

 Northing Plantation where they pulled him down. 

 Those who saw the best of this fine gallop were 

 Major LongstafFe, Major Amcotts, Mr. E. Lubbock, 

 Mr. Fenwick, JNIr. T. Heathcote, INIr. J. Hutchinson, 

 jNIr. A. Hutchinson, and Miss Carter. The distance 

 hounds ran was quite 16 miles by the ordnance 

 map, 



A rather singular coincidence happened at the 

 finish of a good hunting run from Peas Cliff to 

 Ropsley, where hounds killed their fox in front of 

 INIrs. Smart's house, a lady eighty-six years of age, a 

 tenant of the Duke's, who always had a good walk 

 for a foxhound puppy. Gillard presented her with 

 the brush, and she then told him that she viewed 

 in the distance from her house, the day before, the 

 fox killed after a run from Boothby Wood. This 

 was wonderful, even in her long fife, and a proud 

 moment too, even if rather late in the day ! 



On April 6th a large field were out, including 

 Captain Pennell Elmhirst, and as " he was the only 

 rider with a pen behind his ear," we quote him. 

 "The meet was Three Queens, and until three 

 o'clock hounds were searchino- the heath for a 



