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wards Grafton over the heavy ploughs nearly 

 to Wexcombe ; over Fair Mile, where he turned 

 to the right and skirted Heath Copse, and so 

 through the Rags and Shaw Copse, Chantry, 

 through Jubilee Clump to Scots Poor, where 

 he was headed and lay down in Hippenscombe 

 Gorse, and they killed him, an old dog-fox ; 

 time, I hour 23 minutes. A real good sporting 

 run. Found again in Grafton Park a fox which 

 at first ran through all the farm buildings he 

 could find in his line, then through Wexcombe, 

 and on to Tedcombe Hill, where he lay down 

 in a pit till the hounds fairly worked up to him, 

 and catching a view they rolled him over in 

 the open within half a mile of the big woods ; 

 time, thirty-two minutes. This brought us up 

 to forty-one brace, the total for that season of 

 1879-80. 



We began again, as usual, the next autumn, 

 and had a good November, some of them very 

 fair days. 



On Monday the 15th, 1880, we met at Nether- 

 avon House, where we then lived during the 

 winter months. A large field turned up, amongst 

 whom were Lord Algernon St. Maur, Lord 

 Lawrence, Lord Wiltshire, Sir William Humphery, 

 Sir Edmund Antrobus, Hon. Percy Wyndham, 

 M.P., Mrs. and Miss Wyndham, and many others. 



