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swearing to every step ; hunted it away at the top 

 and began to mend in pace over the top of Ring 

 Tor. The others went to the left ; I went down 

 wind and over the top and came opposite a gate in 

 a moor wall and got away again alone ; had good 

 galloping to Merivale Bridge. There I was in the 

 same field with them and pulled a shoe off in a 

 boggy place. I stopped and walked back and 

 picked up my shoe before Colonel Radcliffe came 

 up ; hounds then going up the opposite hill. I 

 showed him where to go, and went to look for a 

 smith. Trelawny and rest came up on the road. 

 No smith within two miles. I borrowed a hammer 

 and tacked on the shoe, but could not clench it, and 

 it came off again. Hole and Parker came up ; they 

 all had gone too far on the Tavistock road and 

 galloped nearly to Peter Tavy. Colonel Radcliffe 

 turned with the hounds between Cog^h Tor and 

 Rose Tor and ran the fox to ground in Mist Tor. I 

 got my shoe on near Tavistock and went back to 

 Merivale Bridge. It was beginning to get dark, 

 and I heard old Leamon blowing on Mist Tor with 

 the hounds. He was seven hounds short ; he said, 

 " Brother will bring them home ". I waited for him, 

 and he showed me the way by Waukhampton, 

 Sheeptor, Ringmoor Down, Beliver Bridge, Corn 

 Wood. I got to Ivybridge at 7.15; Biddicomb, 

 7.30; Lukesland, 8.10. Calmady and all the others 

 did not get away, and went home. 



The two Mr. Leamons were wonderful men, and 

 I should think no one ever kept foxhounds for so 



