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Broug-ht fonvard . . 

 Friday, December 4th, 1829. 



Met at Inwood; — found immediately, but owing" 

 to the horsemen riding after the Fox, &c.. we made 

 a bad start, g-iving" the Fox too much law. on a bad- 

 scenting- day : we hunted him. however, on to Stowel 

 and Charlton, skirting- Cherton Wood, and on to 

 Cheriton and Latiford, crossing the road for the vale 

 near Wincantou, losing- him under Horsing-ton, — pro- 

 bably in some of the drains there, after a g-jod hunting- 

 run of one hour and forty minutes 



Tuesday, December 8th. 



About one hundred and fifty horse met us at Stock 

 Honse, where -we found Jive or six Foxes in the Covers 

 immediately, and g-ot away, in about an hour, with a 

 Fox close bfore us, to the river towards Rooksmoor, which 

 '\Te skirted for Hazelbury Common, and across the river 

 by Hazelbury Mill for the Pulham Commons, and away 

 at the toj) of their speed for Glanville's Woottoa 

 Common, running the Fox, all but in view, into Mr. 

 W'arry s Plantation, where we killed him after a bril- 

 liant run of fifty minutes from the Covers edg-e 



Friday, December 11th. 



It being- a hard frost, we conld not throw off 'till 



half past one; getting upon the line of a disturbed Fox 



at Sandford, tee hnnted up to him at Trent Hollow. 

 going awav very quick with him to Coombe Farm, nejirly 

 to the Sherborne road, and thence to Xether Compton, 

 ichere tee changed when on killing terms, going away 

 across the vale to Rimpton. where we stopped the 

 Hounds when nearly dark, twenty-five minutes before 



five 



Friday, December loth. 



A large Field met us at Bitcombe Wood, but it 

 beino" a dense fog , we separated under Alfred's Tower. 



Carried forward. . . . 



