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, 54 baily's magazine. [January 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 I899J "OUR VAN. »> 55 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