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swearing to every step ; hunted it away at the top 

 and began to mend in pace over the top of Ring 

 Tor. The others went to the left ; I went down 

 wind and over the top and came opposite a gate in 

 a moor wall and got away again alone ; had good 

 galloping to Merivale Bridge. There I was in the 

 same field with them and pulled a shoe off in a 

 boggy place. I stopped and walked back and 

 picked up my shoe before Colonel Radcliffe came 

 up ; hounds then going up the opposite hill. I 

 showed him where to go, and went to look for a 

 smith. Trelawny and rest came up on the road. 

 No smith within two miles. I borrowed a hammer 

 and tacked on the shoe, but could not clench it, and 

 it came off again. Hole and Parker came up ; they 

 all had gone too far on the Tavistock road and 

 galloped nearly to Peter Tavy. Colonel Radcliffe 

 turned with the hounds between Cogh Tor and 

 Rose Tor and ran the fox to ground in Mist Tor. I 

 got my shoe on near Tavistock and went back to 

 Merivale Bridge. It was beginning to get dark, 

 and I heard old Leamon blowing on Mist Tor with 

 the hounds. He was seven hounds short ; he said, 

 " Brother will bring them home". I waited for him, 

 and he showed me the way by Waukhampton, 

 Sheeptor, Ringmoor Down, Beliver Bridge, Corn 

 Wood. I got to Ivybridge at 7.15; Biddicomb, 

 7.30; Lukesland, 8.10. Calmady and all the others 

 did not get away, and went home. 



The two Mr. Leamons were wonderful men, and 

 I should think no one ever kept foxhounds for so 



