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Misses Capel-Cure (2), Miss L. Bovvlby, Miss Mary Gower, Mr. Gee, 

 Mr. Giles, Mr. B. E. Todhunter, Mr. T. J. Howard, Mr. Raby, Mr. L. 

 Marriage, Mr. T. D. Whitehead, General Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C, Mr. F. 

 Ball, Mr. A. Waters, Mr. Tyndale White, Mr. A. W. Craig, Mr. R. S. 

 Tilling, Mr. S. Fitch, Mr. George Brown, Miss M. Green, Mr. Fardell, 

 Mr. T. R. Hull, Miss Ethel Jones, Mr. R C. Lyall, Miss M. Morgan, 

 Mr. E. Pelly, Mr. E. Ouare, the Misses Ouare (2), Miss C. Felly, Mr. 

 G. Harris, Mr. A. R. Steele, Miss Fane, MrT E. W. Young. 



Man Wood, the Gorse Down Hall (Mr. Bowlby told me that already 

 there were two litters of cubs in the Down Hall coverts), and Man Wood 

 were drawn without a whimper, also some rough field below Matching 



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Park and the kennels, when at 3.15 we found ourselves at Latton Park. 

 Hounds had scarcely been in covert a minute before a vigorous view holloa 

 in the direction of Rundells Grove set us all on the gallop, and immediately 

 afterwards, as we gathered near the keeper's house, a beautiful dog fox 

 broke in full view at the bottom of Rundells Grove and went away as 

 straight as an arrow across the big wheat field towards Rye Hill. 



In the meantime hounds were back with the vixen, but Mr. Green kept 

 his horn going, and he laid hounds on at the gallop ; the moment they 

 touched the line you could tell there was a scent, as heads up and sterns 

 down they drove along ; and those who had got through the wire netting 

 that surrounded the field, and those who were with Mr. Green, including 

 Mr. T. J. Howard on his grey, converged for the corner of the field. It 

 would have puzzled a stranger to have found a way out of the field into 

 the lane. There was only one weak spot and we knew it, and very little 

 room either between the trees of the fence ; my whip was torn out of my 



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