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Broug"ht forward . . 



Cover in a driving* rain, blank. As we were proceeding 

 to the Covers under Alfred's Tower, without having- had 

 the touch of a Fox, we were broug-ht back to a part of 

 the Cover where a Fox had been seen thirty minutes 

 lefore : the Hounds hunted him with a very indifferent 

 scent to the Great Park Wood at Redlynch, where we 

 could mark his line no further. We then walked the 

 Hounds on to Brewham Forest, which we drew, blank, 

 and it being- three o'clock, and having- twenty miles 

 home, we retreated without doing any thing more.. .. 



Friday, October 23rd, 1829. 



Met at Nether Compton, and found a brace of 

 Foxes immediately ; — six couple killing one in Rottley 

 Coppice on the Earth ; and the Pack g-oing- away at the 

 top of their speed with the other along Sherborne Field 

 for Holway, and nearly to Lord Digby's Park, where 

 he was headed ; and thence to Coombe Farm and 

 Compton, the Pack running- into SLa^l killing him in the 

 open, at the end of a severe run of one hour and ten 

 minutes 



Tuesday, October 27th. 



Met at Yarnfield Gate, in a heavy fog. Threw off 

 at twelve ; — finding a brace of Foxes in Hicks's Park ; — 

 g-oing- away with a middling scent to West End Wood 

 and over Yarnfield Common to Kilmington Plantation, and 

 through the whole of Sir R. Hoare's pleasure grounds 

 to the ridg-e behind Stourton Inn, where they were halloo- 

 ed to a fresh Fox (the hunted Fox was seen to lie down, 

 dead heat^ a little further on in a potatoe field) which 

 went to Alfred's Tower, where we stopped the Hounds 

 at half-past four, with twenty miles home. We drew 

 the Bradley Woods without finding- in the morning-, 

 the Earths having- been stopped late ; and did not find 



till three o'clock 



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