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Broug-lit forward. ■ . . 

 Saturday, September 13th, 1828. 



Met at Yarling-ton at eight o'clock ; — found a very 

 fine litter, and after three hours and a quarter very g-ood 

 running-, over a great deal of ground, we killed a sin- 

 gle Fox 



Friday, September 19th. 



Met at Holway Brake at eight o'clock; — found 

 a litter of eight Foxes, and after a sharp burst of 

 thirty minutes with the old Fox, we stopped the Hounds 

 at Coombe Farm, the Earths being open at Nether 

 Compton, As these Foxes had done a great deal of mis- 

 chief at Sandford, we came back and killed a brace of 

 Cubs in one hour ; and after the Hounds had been 

 taken aicay, and were got into the road leading to 

 Pointington, they unluckily chopped another lying 

 under the wall hy the road side 



Tuesday, September 23rd. 



Met at Creech Hill; — found a leash of Foxes in 

 Milton Wood, and after a sharp run under a burning 

 sun, we ran our Fox to a stone quarry and left him. 

 Ran a second some time, and lost him amongst the out- 

 buildings of the farm house under the hill 



Friday, September 26th. 



Met at Compton Castle at nine o'clock ; — finding 

 a fine litter immediately, and after nearly two hours 

 good work in Cover, getting away with the old dog 

 Fox, and in a beautiful burst of thirty minutes by 

 Sigwells, and round the hills leading to Gorton, run- 

 ning into him in open view on the Charlton Downs . . . 



Thursday, October 2nd. 



, Found a brace of old Foxes in West End Wood fthis 

 being the third litter already taken and sold !) and 

 after one hour's very sharp work, we Earthed the Fox 



Carried forward. . . . 



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