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have come back with some old disturbed scent down 

 this hill. Our fox is certainly gone forward ; and I 

 have no doubt I could get on him again. Is it worth 

 while.? What shall I do.?' Mr. Wroughton, of 

 Wolley Park, who, in Mr. Warde's absence, took the 

 lead, looked at his watch, and said, * Well, if you 

 think you can recover him, do so.' The huntsman 

 then again ascended the hill, and within a field of the 

 spot where he supposed the hounds to have changed, 

 got upon the line of his hunted fox, with a fair scent, 

 which kept continually improving. He still went on 

 southwards, over the Ibthorp water meadows, never 

 afterwards touching a cover, or seeming to know 

 where he was. He bore a little to the left, till he got 

 close under Pill Heath, but declined that, and all the 

 great Doles Woods, and bearing more round to the 

 right, was run from scent to view, and pulled down in 

 the open near Tangley Clumps ; and lo ! when he was 

 taken in hand, he had* the same half brush which had 

 been observed at Waterman's two hours and a half 

 before, proving that he was the same fox, fairly re- 

 covered by science and perseverance, and not, as 

 might otherwise have been suspected, a fresh fox, 

 which had got up somewhere in the long line of 

 country which we had gone through. 



