FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 97 



home at four; during the day had six foxes on 

 foot and killed three. 



Tuesday^ Nov. 30, at Upavon Village. — Six 

 red and about thirty black coats composed the 

 field. A still morning ; twenty couples of dog- 

 hounds. Drew the osier bed near Rushall, — a 

 brace of foxes at home. Away directly with one 

 who swam the river, and over the meadows up to 

 Wood Bridge ; across the high road pointing 

 straight through the Pewsey Vale, by Manning- 

 ford, over the fields to the Great Western Railway, 

 up the line and on to Wilcot, leaving Lord A. St. 

 Maur's place to the left, over the Canal Bridge by 

 Stowell to Draycott, and away over the heavy 

 fields towards Oare Hill ; then to the left, and up 

 the hillside through Coker Wood, over the open 

 downs to the Wans Dyke, close to Hewitt's Gorse, 

 where the fox lay down in a sheep-fold. Got a 

 view and roiled her over — a wiry old vixen as 

 stiff as a poker. A hunting run of one hour and 

 fifty minutes and an eight-mile point — a fact 

 worth recording, as they ran some twelve miles. 

 A sporting hunt enjoyable to those who care to see 

 a dog pack do their work and throw their tongues 

 really well. The Pewsey Vale was never much 

 deeper, and thus some over-eager horsemen were 

 nicely handicapped. The vast extent of the 

 Tedworth country is here illustrated by the 

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