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ground ; had her out and turned her down in the 

 forest ; she ran back to Warborne, and, after hunting 

 her for 53 minutes, killed her. 



" Found No. 2 on Warborne, and had 47 mins. 

 without a check and killed her. Hounds rather tired, 

 so sent Sam home for 2 couples left in kennel. Found 

 No. 3 close to Bull Hill, ran her by Pilley Green, over 

 Ditton Farm, and thro' Sheffield Copse to the forest, 

 where Sam joined us with two couples of fresh hounds, 

 and we had an excellent hunt and killed our hare in 

 the middle of Beaulieu Heath. Time i hour, 3 mins. 



" On Friday, Nov. i, 1895, met, 10 o'clock, Hill 

 Top Gate (13 couples). Found at 11-15 close to 

 Harley Pitts ; they ran over the burnt ground and 

 on to the cultivated land at Hythe Cross Roads down 

 to Butts Ashe ; hounds were running hard and they 

 packed like a flock of pigeons ; they never left her in 

 covert and hunted her back to Hythe Cross Roads. 

 Christopher viewed her away, leaving the Nodes on 

 their left ; they sank the valley, but on rising the oppo- 

 site hill, hounds were at fault on heather, burnt 

 ground, but we viewed her making for Ipley. 



" I lifted them and they hunted beautifully past 

 King's Hat Enclosure, which they left on their left, 

 up the high road, and across Ipley Farm, running 

 parallel to Ipley River ; we reached the Decoy Farm, 

 and viewed her ' tit-titupping ' on to the forest moor 

 again ; she made a sharp double, and hounds were 

 at fault, but I fresh found her on the river bank, where 

 it runs below the L. & S.W.Ry. at the head of Mattey 

 bog, and hounds being on excellent terms with her, 

 hunted her to death, close to Deerleap Enclosure, at 

 2-20 P.M., nearly five miles as the crow flies, from 

 Butts Ashe, after a slow but good hunting run of 3 hrs. 

 5 mins. 



