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Broug-ht forward .... 



leading riders; running him to earth, dead beat, 

 at Wolston Coppice; — the stoppers having unluckily 

 opened the Earth, thinking- that the Hounds had gone 

 home, it being nearhf dark .' 



Tuesday, Xovember 24th, 18-29. 



Mkt at Xether Compton Lodg'e ; — found a brace and 

 half of Foxes in Potter's Lease, crossing the river to 

 Newton, and on to Berwick, and throug-h Clift Wood 

 to Yetminster. and away on middling- terms with a bad j 

 scent to Melbury, and thence to a small coppice near } 

 Evershot, where the Hounds hunted up to their Fox I 



in beautiful style, to the admiration of the whole Field; ' 



running- him in view into a small Coppice, where they 

 chansfed to a brace of fresh foxes, goin2;' away 

 at the top of their speed to Wolcombe AValls and clear 

 to AVraxall, where they were with difficulty stopped, 

 after a very hard and unlucky day of three hours and 

 a quarter's incessant work, having covered more than 

 twenty miles of ground 



Fridav. November 27th. 



Met at Leigh Common: — killed a Fox in IMr. 

 Phelips's Plantation without much runninof; the Fox 

 being headed on each side. It being a very dense fog, j 

 after a short draw towards Brewham Wood, &c., we ' 

 took them home 



Tuesdav, December 1st. 



Met at Zeals Green: — got upon the disturbed scent 

 of a gallant Fox in Deverell Long^vood, the Fox having 

 been disturbed by the foot people before we camel Hunted j 

 him about a mile or two over the Mere Downs, but 

 could not get up to him. Drew Kilmington Common, 

 Hicks 's Park, and West End Wood, blank 



Carried forward .... 



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