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"You're hunting our fox, my lord". Willoughby 

 replied in plain and forcible English. Just then we 

 saw a fox two fields off on the other side of the river, 

 and Rushout, the Cotswold Master, and his field all 

 standing still within two fields of the fox. Willoughby 

 shouted out, " Where is there a ford ? " I stopped 

 back to see what had happened. His tail hounds 

 hit a scent and ran hard up and down the sides of 

 the river and killed the fox. It was pretty late and 

 we returned to Bickmarsh. Willoughby had some 

 tea and the hounds went home. 



1st April. — Mrs. Cheape had a beautiful pack of 

 beagles. Her whipper-in was a Scotchman, and a 

 capital runner. He was sent to church on Sunday 

 afternoon, and Mrs. Cheape asked him how he liked 

 the English service. He said he had enjoyed it, for 

 when the congregation made the responses " it 

 minded him of the beaofles ". 



5th. — Returned to Bath. 



7th, — In the afternoon we went to Pump Room 

 Hotel to see Captain Spicer's coach start for Devizes, 

 and found him and Lady Margaret Spicer and her 

 mother. Lady Westmoreland. 



nth. — I went to Sydling to stay with Chandy 

 Pole. 



1 2th.— Cattistock Hounds (Chandy Pole) met at 

 Hook Park. 



1 3th. — We went to Spye Park on Spicer's coach. 

 "Mousy" St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, drove it to 

 Bath, and I drove it out to Spye — two of the oldest 

 coachmen in England ! It snowed and blew and 



