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the end of a long day, and his horse had to be then 

 and there destroyed. 



A curious incident occurred a few days later. 

 After ablank morning at Chillington and Boscobel, 

 they found at the Lizard, and after running fast 

 for fifty minutes were just catching their fox 

 when he was coursed and killed by two butcher's 

 dogs. 



I have heard many different theories pro- 

 pounded as to scent or the want of it. A new idea 

 appears in the account of 26th March : There 

 having been a heavy fall of snow in the morning, 

 '' such immense flakes of snow kept falling from 

 the trees that there was no scent at all in covert.'' 



A day or two after, they had a capital gallop 

 from a covert of Lord Anson's near Black Slough. 

 Went away very fast through Fisherwick and on 

 to Hopwas ; up to there forty minutes without a 

 check. '' Hounds got a view of the fox going 

 through the low part of the wood, but he went to 

 ground just in front of them in one of the earths 

 that had been drawn after stopping." 



'' April 13th. Hopwas. — Twenty-four couples; 

 found a brace of foxes, one of which we ran to 

 ground in the covert, the other went away. 

 Drew Fisherwick ; ran the best pace to Black 

 Slough, thirty - three minutes : there came 

 to a check owing to the fox being headed; 

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