HUNTING DAYS 



but there was no time to pick it up. Garnish and 

 Gaylass, and a Hght-coloured bitch called Dimple, 

 I could see were leading, but you could have 

 covered the whole pack with a sheet. 



Near here Mr. Pat Nickalls and Mr. Tweed saw 

 the fox only about four hundred yards ahead of 

 hounds, going straight for the railway, which was 

 crossed by Plumpton Wood, which would be 

 about six miles straight from Arbury Hill. It is a 

 great big wood, half the size of Badby, but the fox 

 ran down the middle ride most of the way. Here 

 I saw Postscript and Fatal turn sharp to the left. 

 I don't think we could have changed there as they 

 never left the line for a moment. They ran on, 

 still going very fast by Wocdend, pointing for 

 Wappenham, to the railway straight over the brook. 

 Lord Annaly was the only one to fly it, and I heard 

 several fall in, and a lot of horses were too done 

 to face it. I struck it lucky by a ford. There's a 

 bit of a plough near Greens Park, but it did not 

 seem to slow them down. Rarity, Garnish and 

 Gaylass I noticed were still leading. 



They left Weedon Bushes on the right and turned 

 right-handed for Aswell Mill, and then turned 

 left after crossing the stream, over some more 

 plough, for what a Grafton gentleman told me was 

 Crown Lands, a huge, great woodland. Just 

 before w^e got there we ran into a little wood called 

 Priests Hay, where hounds divided. I was a bit 

 puzzled which lot were right, but I thought I had 



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