( '30 ) 



Brought forward. . . . 

 in order to g-o home, having* drawn Hicks's Park and 

 West End Wood, -with the heel of a lively drag from 

 the Earths. As we were going along above Brewham, 

 we crossed the line of a Fox that had slipped away from 

 us, and after a good run of one hour and twenty minutes, 

 we ran him to Earth at Cockroad, dead beat, and 

 close before the Hounds 



Friday, December 18th, 1829. 



A long frost now set in ! 



Friday, January 29th, 1830. 



Met at King Stag Bridge, and hard as the ground 

 was for the horses, we went to Rooksmoor Coppice ; — 

 finding a brace of Foxes immediately, and going away 

 with the dog Fox, and with a tolerably good scent to 

 Deadmoor, ajid thence to Fifehead, where the sharp 

 south-easterly breeze turned him for Hazelbury, the 

 Hounds pressing him across the vale to Humber Wood, 

 and towards Canning's Court for Shortwood, where the 

 Hounds got up to him, and in fifty-five minutes, when 

 killing, ran him to a shallow Earth in the bank's side, 

 in Mr. Farquharson's Country. As a litter had once 

 been bred here, the Hounds were sent home : and as 

 the foot people threatened to dig and kill him, (and as 

 he could he touched with a hazle rod) he was drawn in 

 three minutes, ear-marked, and let safely go, dead beat, 

 into *Shortwood. 



Tuesday, February 2nd. 



Frost and Snow again set in 



Thursday, February 9th. 



Met at Bradley Great Wood ; found immediately, 



and in two hours and a quarter, without a check, killed 

 a very old dog Fox near Longleat, in superior style. . . 



*This Fox was found by tlie Blackmoor Vale Hounds on the 

 fourteenth of January, 1831, in one of Mr. Yeatman's Covers, and 

 killed, after a long run of two hours and fifty minutes. 



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