Related article: in them ten minutes, for finding
in Charndon Wood they forced a
fox away at once, and with but
half a score followers prepared
to accept the situation, literally
raced by Calvert Station over a
stiffly fenced country to Twyford
and Goddington, running their fox
to ground close to Colonel Gos-
ling's house at Stratton Park. It
was said that for twenty minutes
afterwards the spread-eagled field
might be seen coming over God-
dington Hill. The latter part of
the day was memorable for a
second excellent gallop from Cot-
more. December 5th found Lord
Cottenham at Oakley, and yet
another red-letter day to place to
the credit of his pack, for finding
in Homage Coppice they ran a
fox over twelve miles of country
as the crow flies, and probably
sixteen as hounds ran. Breaking
away in the direction of Chilton,
they turned left-handed by Dorton
to Chink well Wood Cartia Xt Discontinued and the Woot-
ton Rushbeds. Threaded Tettis-
hall Wood and passing Pidding-
ton and Ludgershall, crossed the
Bicester road to Marsh Gibbon
and Poundon Hill, finally losing
him between that point and
Poodle Gorse. The best day to
the present time in the opinion of
most men took place on December
8th, when from Ham Green
hounds found in Tettishall Wood,
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and getting on to the same fox
they had run on the previous
Monday, Cartia Xt 180 Mg they drove him over a
rare line of country by Charndon
and Edgcott to Steeple Claydon,
where he beat them. Found again
in Gawcott Wood, and Cox worked
out a hunting run through the
whole of the woodlands to Tinge-
wick and Finmere, and having
almost reached Westbury, turned
to the left to Mixbury Plantations,
where this one also saved his
brush. December ioth, Souldern
Gate, and a stout wild fox from
Aynho piloted the hunt over a
vast extent of wild country until
the Waterloo Farm was reached,
and between that and Cotmore
he found a harbour of refuge.
The hunt then returned to Stoke
Big Wood, from which a merry
ring was worked out by Fewcott
and Ardley, the second addition
of which ended when Fewcott
was reached again, and a very
hard day for hounds was crowned
with blood. December 13th, a
very large and influential field
met Lord Cottenham at Finmere.
Found in Cartia Xt 300 Mg Finmere Wood, ran Cartia Xt 240 the
Mixbury Plantations and over the
open by Mixbury and Fulwell to
Evenley, where although only a
field in front of them at the
Brackley road this fox beat them.
A very fast and choice fifteen
minutes from Shelswell Planta-
tions was the second Cartia Xt 120 Mg item of the
programme, for having threaded
Mixbury a second time hounds
drove along by Finmere to Tinge-
wick, and pulled their fox down
near the church. Then the cur-
tain rang down to a superb burst
over Buy Cartia Xt the grass from a small osier
cobb under Fringford, during
which hounds literally raced by
Stratton Mill and Newton Purcell
to Spilsmore, marking their fox to
ground in a drain just beyond.
Pucke ridge. — An extraordinary
run, such as has never been re-
corded in the history of the Puck-
eridge Hunt, took place on
Saturday, November 26th. The
meet was at Cumberlow Green,
Jim Cockayne hunting the bitch
pack. A fox was found in Cold- Ash
Covert, near Weston, and ran
through sixteen parishes, hounds
being finally, with much difficulty
whipped off at dusk as they were
running into one of the Master's
home coverts at Brent Pelhani.
Hounds were running for three
hours and twenty minutes and
most of the time very hard. They
ran through the following coverts :
Greatwood, Cothall, Broadfields,
Capons, and Hormead Thrift,
these being the only coverts
touched. It was about a twelve
mile point, and after having
marked the run in on a map and
carefully measured it up it works
out from twenty-five to twenty-
eight miles in length. There
were only four at the end out of a
large field, viz. : the master and
huntsman, and Mr. John Sworder
and Mr. Smith of Standon. There
is little doubt but that hounds
must have changed foxes.
Fatal Accident with the Puck-
eridge. — It was during the run
narrated above that poor Bill
Hurrell, the first whip, met his
death in a very sad way. He
was discovered quite dead, with
his horse standing beside him,
lying face downwards in a brook
of 2£ ft. of water, by two gentle-
men of the hunt who were
returning home. It seems that
in crossing the brook at a rough
ford and scrambling up the
opposite bank he somehow or
other got thrown and probably
knocked insensible back into the
water and drowned. He had been
left behind at a big covert, Capons,
and was coming along alone when
the accident happened. Curiously
enough he had just got on to his
second horse, so it was not a case
of riding a tired horse, nor did the
horse fall with him in crossing
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the brook. A subscription was at
once started by the Honorary
Secretaries for the benefit of the
widow and child, and it is satisfac-
tory to know that the amount
already collected reaches a con-
siderable sum.
Fox-hunting Incidents. — How
very curiously history repeats
itself. The other day the Ulls-
water Hounds were due to meet
at what is said to be the highest
inhabited spot in England, Kirk-
stone Top. It is a desperate
climb to the summit, but the
pedestrian field were saved some
of the scramble, as in the twinkling
of Cartia Xt 240 Mg an eye, the pack, which had
been walking demurely enough,
broke away on the line of a fox
which could not have crossed Cartia Xt 180 long
before. Bowman, the huntsman,
rated in vain. Away went the
hounds, and in Raven Crag came
up with their fox. Here was a
rare scent, and hounds getting
away almost on the fox's back,
went clear away from the field, so
the huntsman returned disconso-
lately to kennel, trusting to luck
that his hounds would turn up
one by one in the course of the
next few days, and no doubt he
was not disappointed, for it is
marvellous how hounds, which are
not always being looked after, will
take care of themselves. When