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for your benefit, as yoii know the country. Met at 

 Charndon Common. Sharpish air, but fine, still 

 morning. Twenty couple white hounds ; my pack. 

 Found two or three foxes in Charndon Wood, and I 

 intended as soon as we had made a row in the wood, to 

 cut away to the end where a fox generally breaks ; how- 

 ever, before I got there, two were holloaed away. In 

 going up the ride 1 crossed two lines of foxes, and some 

 hounds broke away on each, so I arrived with only four 

 couple ; however, they came dropping on, and as soon as 

 I got twelve couple, I went away with them. We had 

 just got over the Edgcot Eoad and down the hill, where 

 our fox had turned to the right, when something headed 

 him, and he turned back in front of the hounds, in the 

 same field with them, and away they went over those 

 fine grass fields. Somehow another fox appeared, and 

 the two ran close together up to the Grandon and 

 Marsh Gibbon Road. I had a bad start, being the 

 wrong side of a big fence, and only caught them there. 

 The fox had run up the road towards me, and gone 

 through the gate, opposite to which I came into the road. 

 The twelve couple on the line were two fields to my left, 

 and five couples scoring to the cry in the next field to 

 me, when I whistled the five couple, nicked the scent 

 first, and then away they went in earnest, seventeen 

 couple, over Marsh Gibbon field, all grass, very deep, 

 double fences and brooks. We began by crossing the 

 brook twice, and a double, which thinned the field down 

 to seven or eight, George Drake being first, Bill Holland 

 and myself and Ned Drake next, Henry Lambton and 

 Ned Harrison a little behind us, and I never saw any- 

 one else. At the Ham Green road the fox ran up the 

 road a little way, the leading four couple flashed on and 

 missed the turn, but the body hunted the line through. 



