--- description: In rural Mursley last week Schoolmaster Bozman sat dozing by his fireside when suddenly a hard-pressed fox came leaping through his windowpane, followed by the entire pack of Whaddon Chase hounds. Run... title: Foreign News: Whaddon Chase image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Foreign News: Whaddon Chase by [TIME](/author/time/) Dec 3, 1934 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Dec 3, 1934 5:00 AM CUT In rural Mursley last week Schoolmaster Bozman sat dozing by his fireside when suddenly a hard-pressed fox came leaping through his windowpane, followed by the entire pack of Whaddon Chase hounds. Run to earth behind Schoolmaster Bozman’s bookcase, the fox was torn to bits with much baying and yelping by the triumphant hounds. Foreign News: Whaddon Chase ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6863231/foreign-news-whaddon-chase/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6863231/foreign-news-whaddon-chase/"},"headline":"Foreign News: Whaddon Chase","datePublished":"1934-12-03T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T18:29:19.866Z","description":"In rural Mursley last week Schoolmaster Bozman sat dozing by his fireside when suddenly a hard-pressed fox came leaping through his windowpane, followed by the entire pack of Whaddon Chase hounds. Run...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6863231/foreign-news-whaddon-chase/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6863231/foreign-news-whaddon-chase/","name":"Foreign News: Whaddon Chase"}}]}] ```