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Hounds assembled opposite the house of the 

 squire and his wife, Mrs. Thomas A. R. Heath- 

 cote, the day being a red-letter one for sport. 

 A summary of it is as follows : a nice hunting 

 run of an hour with the morning fox, a quick 

 dart middle day with fox No. 2, in the evening 

 forty minutes at racing pace and a kill in 

 the open. Sapperton Wood had been in great 

 form this season, and on this occasion supplied 

 the evening fox, who took the desired line of 

 country, first with a point for Hanby, then away 

 over the grass and Lenton brook to Ingoldsby 

 Wood. The brook, as usual, sifted out the field. 

 Mr. F. A. Soames on his chestnut horse Kedar 

 gave the lead, which was followed by Mr. E. 

 Lubbock, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, and the 

 Hon. Claude Willoughby de Eresby, the latter 

 losing his hat, finishing the run bareheaded. Mr. 

 T. A. Rudkin, the hard -riding vet., was one of 

 those who nicked in, and though encumbered with 

 a bag on his saddle full of blister bottles and lotion, 

 he rode at the brook and got the right side with a 

 fall, breaking all his bottles. Before this good fox 

 could reach his goal, Ingoldsby Wood, hounds 

 pulled him down in a stack-yard close by, after 

 giving forty minutes of the very best. To Lord 

 Willoughby the brush was presented by Gillard, 

 and to Miss Lucy and Emily Heathcote, each a 

 pad, the mask going to Mr. T. A. Rudkin. The 

 day did not end there, for the following Sunday 

 the vicar of Folkingham took for his text, " Evil 

 shall hunt the wicked," knowing that his congrega- 



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