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getting his horse out of the bog, followed, and 

 overtook Squire Toinlinson at Stoney Bank. 



From some prints of hounds, they decided 

 that they had gone to Bolton Gill. On reaching 

 the Gill, they found five hounds were missing. 

 Mr. Chapman, knowing they had previously killed 

 there, went in search of the fox, while Mr. 

 Tomlinson took his horse round by Apedale Smelt 

 Mill, and met a man who said he had seen five 

 hounds runniug under Bull Scar. Mr. Tomlinson 

 called Mr. Chapman out of the Gill, saying they 

 had gone forward. Going in the direction of 

 Bolton west Gill, the missing five hounds were 

 met returning. Mr. Chapman, rubbing his hand 

 over their muzzles, concluded at once they had 

 killed the fox somewhere ahead. 



On meeting Richard Willis and Lang Scar 

 Jack (Fawcett, the keeper) they were infonned 

 the hounds had killed above Carperby ; and as 

 Jammie Holmes had joined Mr. Chapman and 

 Mr. Tomlinson near Bolton Gill, the three went 

 forward, and found the dead fox had been brought 

 down by somebody and laid on Dodds's Bink. 



