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Brought forward. . . . 17 



Park, after a sharp burst of forty minutes : — we killing 

 one Fox in Castleton Lane, (all but in the streets of 

 Sherborne) in forty-five minutes with seven couple and fc4 



half! 



Tuesday, January 23rd, 1827 — Frost 



Friday, January 26th Frost 



Tuesday, January 30th. 



Met at Jack White's g-ibbet, near Yarling-ton, and 

 drew Lilly AVood, (a favourite Cover belong-ing" to U. 

 and G. Messiter, Esquires. The Hounds ybwnc? imme- 

 diately ; — going- away in the same field with him along 

 the vale by Shepton Montague towards Redlynch Park, 

 from which the Hounds fairly turned him for the Covers 

 behind Hadspen House ; and thence by Ansford Park, 

 for the Earths at Creech Hill, the Hounds running in- 

 to him in forty-five minutes before he could reach them. 



Friday, February 2nd. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met at Plumley Wood. 

 It being a very raw cold morning, with the wind south- 

 east, and the Hounds late in consequence of the frost, 

 we soon discovered by old Wildboy that our Fox 

 was gone ! And that we had the heel of him. Catching 

 the Hounds up as quick as we could, we hit him into the 

 Caundle Holt Covers, and hunted him to Bull Close 

 Furze, where the Hounds went away all hut in view of 

 him^ racing him at the top of their speed to Bishop's 

 Caundle village, and along the turnpike for nearly a 

 mile and over the bridge at Woodbridge, and breaking 

 over the enclosures for Holwell Borough ; and thence 

 along the Holwell Commons and the enclosures in 

 Glanville's Wootton to the summit of Castle Hill, which 

 the Hounds reached in forty-five ninutes. An awkward 

 check took place at this moment : the Fox having been 

 headed — an immense flock of sheep having stained the 



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