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on-the-Hill; and as usual a lot of the best men from 

 Melton put in an appearance. A fox was speedily 

 found in Norton Spinney, and leaving tlie gorse covert 

 behind, the hounds soon threw up, the weather being 

 cold and stormy. Then picking up the scent again, 

 they ran away at a good pace for Nosley ; but 

 doubling back, the fox ran gallantly away, and was 

 finally lost near Shankton Holt. During the run a 

 brawling brook presented itself, and was the cause of 

 several good men going wrong. After this they 

 drew Rolleston and the adjoining Spinney blank, and 

 trotted back to Nosley, where a fox was found in a 

 tree — not an unusual occurrence this season. Being 

 dislodged from his roosting-place he gave them a 

 splitting run for twenty-five minutes, when he was 

 lost. 



The Pytchley (the Woodland pack) had a very fine 

 run the same day from Weekly Hall Wood, crossing 

 Boughton Park, skirting Boughton Wood, going 

 through the Chase, leaving Stanton on the left, away 

 through Brigstock Forest ; making for Dene Thorpe 

 Woods, where the fox turned and raced away in the 

 direction of Oiindle ; turning then to the left, he made 

 for Lilford Hall, through Lyveden Wood, where the 

 hounds came to a check. Here the fox was viewed, 

 and Goodall, whose horse was by this time pretty well 

 done, had some little difiiculty in getting up to his 

 hounds ; but persevering, he got once more on good 

 terms with his fox, and raced him away through the 

 Lyveden Woods, on to Titchmarsh, finally running 

 him to ground near Lowick ; whence he was run into,, 

 after one of the grand runs that are often met with 

 at this period of the year when the Pytchley wood- 



