. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . d even they having all tlieir work cut out tolive the pace. One field on the right of Owston village, andwithin half a mile of his shelter, strength suddenly failed stopped short, and the hounds were half a field over him intheir eagerness ; but his time was come, and a few minutesmore saw this grand, good fox pulled down stiff and helpless 1871-72.] COLONEL CHAPLIN >S RUN IN A FOG. 39 from a hedgerow close below the wood. That he could gothr
. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . d even they having all tlieir work cut out tolive the pace. One field on the right of Owston village, andwithin half a mile of his shelter, strength suddenly failed stopped short, and the hounds were half a field over him intheir eagerness ; but his time was come, and a few minutesmore saw this grand, good fox pulled down stiff and helpless 1871-72.] COLONEL CHAPLIN >S RUN IN A FOG. 39 from a hedgerow close below the wood. That he could gothrough half he did proclaims him extraordinary ; and menwho were fortunate enough to reap the full benefit of hisdeeds on that day will be long ere they forget him. Therewere good things, too, and many of them, done by horses, byhounds, and by men, that are well worthy to be handed down ;but the achievement that deserves record more than all wastlie style in which, when the fences were biggest and the goingfastest, Mr. Tryon, of Loddington, ever kept some sixteen orseventeen stone in the foremost rank. COLONEL EDWARD CHAPLINS RUN IN A 1^0 m u tr <:-• OF WATEUPOUD KIDINO OVER THE DINNER-TABLE ATLOWESBY HALL. LowESBY Hall was the rendezvous and centre of supply,for commissariat as well as recruits, on December 23rd—SirFred. Fowke providing hospitality on the table once riddenover by the famous Marquis of Waterford. John o Gaunt wasnext made the base of operations. One fox stole away unper- 40 THE CEEAM OF LEICESTERSHIRE. [Season ceived before the hounds were in the covert; but a second kepthimself quiet till the master began to look anxious about a , once on foot, he delicately declined to cross-examine theex-Craven hounds,* as to their capabilities in covert, and brokeaway for Tilton. He avoided the dreaded Marfield bottom justlong enough to inveigle ever3-bod3 out of reach of the bridge,then crossed it where it could not be jumped, and made forMr. Ta
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