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Broug^ht forward .... 

 Wood, (a Cover of 200 acres) without a turn, for the 

 banks of the river Stour, by the side of which they raced 

 him at a tremendous pace nearly to Sturminster bridge, 

 where they dashed into the river in splendid style, 

 carrying their Fox through the gardens of the town, 

 and on for the fine and extensive enclosures at Manston; 

 running into him in open vieto, after one of the finest 

 runs of two hours and forty minutes ever seen in the 

 County of Dorset ; having traversed nine several 

 parishes in their progress, and covered a good eighteen 

 miles of ground 



Tuesday, December 11th, 1827. 



Found a Fox at Innwood, and unluckily chopped 

 immediately. Found a second at Martin's Coppice, and 

 after a sharp burst of thirty-five minutes, ran him to a 

 drain in the streets of Yeanston, in a barnyard occupied 

 by Mr. Davis. Found a third at Temple Coombe Wood, 

 running for fifty minutes at a very pressing pace to 

 Charlton Horethorne and away for Milborne Slaits, 

 where the Hounds got up to him, going away in view of 

 him across the vale to Stowel, and into the Temple 

 Coombe North Wood, where they changed to a brace of 

 fresh Foxes and were stopped, when nearly dark" 



Friday, December 14th. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met this day in a tre- 

 mendously heavy rain at Fifehead Magdalene, where 

 they found in the Coppice immediately, going* away at 

 his brush across the Vale for East and West Stour, and 

 after a very brilliant run of one hour and five minutes, 

 running him to Earth at Duncliffe Wood, when dead 



beat, and only a few yards before them 



Tuesday. December 18th. 



We found this day at Holway Brake, and in a sharp 

 and brilliant burst of thirty-five minutes, ran into our 



Fox in view, killing near Sherborne Town 



Carried forward. . . . 



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