DO THE BEST SEASON ON RECORD. 



two previous occasions — he carried tliem on above Old 

 Dalby to Lord Aylesford's Covert. A plough team 

 turning him In the last field, he skirted Old Dalby Wood, 

 ^nd rested awhile In Grimston Gorse — moving on again 

 in view as hounds came up. From Saxelby Spinney, 

 just beyond, ensued another sharp ten minutes over the 

 best of the Quorn Monday grass. They ran slower again 

 while the field worked its way out of the entanglements 

 of the three bottoms that cut up the ground below 

 AYartnaby ; but set to work quicker again round the 

 tightly-fenced neighbourhood of Kettleby Village. From 

 the Belvoir covert of Old Hills their fox gave some of 

 the field another view ; but a slight check ensued at 

 Scalford Spinney, half a mile further. Just short of the 

 railway beneath Melton Spinney hounds bore to the left 

 for Scalford Village ; and — having now scored a point of 

 eight mlles-and-a-half from the find — settled down as if 

 running for blood. A mile of deep plough came as a 

 distressing variety to horses that had been steadily 

 pegging on for an hour and a half. But above Clawson 

 Thorns, Reynard was signalled as close In front ; and at 

 the neutral covert of Holwell ]\Ioutli he found the main 

 earth an open refuge. Verdict — a real good fox, and a 

 right sporting run. Recommended by the jury — that, as 

 the earth stopper has now so fully established the neu- 

 trality of the covert by allowing a fox to get to ground 

 in the earth in front of both the Belvoir and the Quorn 

 hounds within the last month, he be now instructed to 

 smoke out and close the said earth permanently until it 

 is ngain needed in the spring. 



