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on foi' the spinies at Combe ; here he was headed again by 

 a cur dog, which turned him in a hne for Leicester's-piece, 

 where he ran to ground. A fine run of an hour and five 

 minutes. 



Nov. 18. — The hounds were no sooner put into this 

 cover, Ufton Wood, than they unkenneled a fox, that led, 

 first to Radford, and then turned up for Harbury ; left that 

 village to the right, and then bore on towards Ladbroke, 

 where the scent fell off, and we left him. Found next at 

 Chesterton ; our game led us to Harwood's House, when 

 he turned short back to the wood ; after running him there 

 for two hours, he found shelter in a rabbit spout. We got 

 reynard out, and took him to the Big Field, to give him 

 law J the hounds lay to him again in earnest, until they 

 turned him up. 



Nov. 19. — The Poolhead, at Farnborough, furnished 

 us, this morning, with a fox, that went quick away to 

 Curtis's Gorse, and then on to Warrhington, where he 

 inclined to the right, straight for Edge Hill, by the Sun 

 Rising, and on to Upton House. Leaving that place to the 

 left, he made direct for Epwell Gorse, and then to Shen- 

 nington Mill ; quitting it to the left, he ran on to Shutford, 

 diverged to the right at that place, and ran to ground on 

 Mr. Greaves's farm, after a sharp run of one hour and 35 

 minutes. Bolted reynard, and gave him a second chance ; 

 the hounds ran into him in ten minutes. 



Nov. 21. — Met at Butler's Marston, and foimd a fox at 

 Pillerton Gorse ; he led us away for Oxhill, where he was 

 headed, and turned back to Hardwick Field ; then forward 

 to Mr. Colmore's farm, where he went to ground. Bolted 



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