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Carried forward .... 

 Tuesday, March 31st, 1829. 



Drew Bitcombe, Postlebury, and 3Ionk Wood, 

 and Bitcombe Wood, blank, — when we were hallooed 

 to a Fox that had been seen sinking- the wind and slip- 

 ping' from us half an hour before : the Hounds hunted 

 him about a mile and lost him in a farm-yard, where 

 it has been since learnt, that he went into a drain 



Saturday. April 4th. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met this day at Xether 

 Compton Lodge Gate ; — drew Potter's Lease, blank, and 

 were turning to ^^ yke Furze, when we were hallooed 

 across the river to Clift AA ood, where the Hounds g'ot 

 up to a Fox in a few minutes and pressed him severely 

 for half an hour : it being' discovered, however, that 

 the Hounds had been treacherously hallooed across 



the river to Mr. Farquharson's Country. thev were 



immediate!// stopped. Found a second Fox at Coombe 

 Farm, but the rain coming- down in torrcJits, the Fox 

 was lost, and the Hounds walked home ; the day having' 

 been completely thrown away I 



Wednesday, April 8th. 



Drew Coppley ^^ ood, near King-weston: — ran our 

 Fox across to the vale near Soraertou, but lost him in the 

 fallows near the town, after fifty-five minutes running' 

 with an execrable scent : the Fox, also, having- been 

 evidently coursed by a sheep dog' 



Saturday, April 11th. 



Found at Cockroad, near Pen Forest, and in a 

 brilliant burst of forty minutes. X.v7/if/ a slapping^ dog 

 Fox. Found a second in West End Wood, and after 

 a capital run of one hour and ten minutes through 

 Brewham Forest, by Gasper Common to Stourtou, we 

 k illed another verj" old dog Fox near Stourton House, 



after the finest daj's sport ever seen at Stourton 



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