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brook to the ford below Read's Farm, or 

 Baulking, where he was only a field in front ; 

 but, making two or three sharp turns, caused 

 the first serious check of about five minutes. 

 The Master making a clever cast, we went 

 away again by Sands Farm, Little Newbury 

 Farm, Wick Wood, and then left-handed over 

 the Faringdon line into Cole's Pits, where 

 there was a long check of ten or eleven 

 minutes. On hounds hunted, however, though 

 slowly, towards Cox well Furze Hills, which the 

 fox skirted on the north side (some workmen 

 turning him), and next crossed the Faringdon 

 and Fernham road just short of Little Coxwell 

 village. Here another slight check occurred, 

 but the Master held hounds on towards the 

 village and hit off the line towards Longcot ; 

 but leaving it just on the left, the pack ran on 

 through the Bowers and Beckett Park, and 

 eventually marked him to ground in a stone 

 drain close to Homeleaze Farm in Beckett 

 Park, Shrivenham, after a run lasting for one 

 hour and fifty minutes, it being then so dark 

 that one could scarcely see hounds half a field 

 ahead. Those at the finish were a select few 

 of only seventeen, including the Master and 

 hunt servants ; but every hound was up at the 

 end, and it was a treat to see the way in which 

 the huntsman and Master handled his pack 



