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Broug-ht forward .... 

 from which the g-allant Pack most evidently and fairly 

 turned liiiii, reaching- tlic Biio-ley Coppices, and under 

 them, at a kiU'ing pace, for thcparisiies of Cuckling-ton 

 and Silton, the south-eastern corners of which they 

 crossed for the parish of Gilliug-ham; here the Hounds 

 pressed him in splendid style, carry in^f the finest head 

 imag-inabie, and running- into him in open view, in one 

 hour and fifteen minutes, having covered a ^ood sixteen 

 miles of ground without a check of one minutes' duration. 

 This run was pronounced by many disting-uished mem- 

 bers of different hunts, who were present, to be decidedly 

 from the find to the finish, the most brilliant that they 

 had ever seen 



Tuesday, March 2;3rd, 1830. 



Met at King-weston Inn, and found a brace of 



Foxes immediately ; running the Vixen for about an 



hour, when the Hounds changed and settled themselves 

 to the dog- Fox, kiUing him haudsomeli/, after a very 

 trying- run throug-h the whole of the extensive Covers of 

 Coppley, Hiireott, &c., of three hours and 20 minutes. 



Friday, March 26th. 



Upwards of a hundred horse met the Blackmoor 

 Vale Hounds this day at Stock House ; the morning 

 apparently most inauspicious, with a very bright sun, 

 a blue and cloudless sky, ami the thermometer at nearly 

 80, due south, at ten o'clock; the iviiid, however, was 

 toest / The Hounds were thrown into the lower Cover, 

 where they g-ot upon the drag immediately, and walked 

 up to their Fox in beautiful style, crossing- the road, 

 for Stock Wood, and across the Park for the Plantations 

 near the river, making for the Caundle Holts, from 

 whence he was headed by a shepherd and his dog-, turn- 

 ing- towards the Sherborne road, and over it to the 

 Hohvell Grounds, and away for Holwell Common, 



Carried forward .... 



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