238 Tally ho. 



Pye, stud groom to tlie Atlierstone, very well mounted 

 indeed; whilst among tlie ladies I observed Mrs. 

 Jones^ Miss Davy, Miss Beech, Miss Darby, Mrs. 

 Standbridge, Mrs. Upperton, Miss Morice, Mrs. Pen- 

 nington, and Miss Caldecott. Then we trotted to 

 Coton House, and the hounds drew the plantation. 



A few minutes only elapsed before I heard a view- 

 halloo, and got to it as quickly as possible. The 

 fox then broke away and ran over two or three fields 

 across the Lutterworth Road ; but, shirking the open, 

 he came back to the plantations, which, however, 

 were soon made too hot to hold him, and he went 

 across the park, making for the village of Newton, to 

 the Cross-in-hand, where two impediments were in 

 our way — the river and the Harborough Railway — and 

 then to Clifton. Hunting our fox slowly over the old 

 grand military steeplechase course, he crossed the 

 brook, in which several took a bath, and sundry loose 

 horses were to be seen galloping about. 



I noticed, however, one young farmer, riding an 

 animal with a coat an inch long, and generally out of 

 condition, who put his nag at the brook in right good 

 form 'j not picking the place, but going where it was 

 the widest, with a low hurdle on the taking off side, and 

 landing in grand style on the other. The scent was 

 bad until we came close to Hillmorton cover. Dis- 

 daining to seek shelter as yet, the fox went over the 

 old Street Road, across some splendid grass fields, and 

 away for Crick cover, the crack meet of the Pytchley, 

 where we lost him, after a sporting run over a capital 

 line. Having been nobly carried throughout, my 

 horse proving to be not only temperate at his fences, 

 but very fast — not pulling an ounce, though going 



