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THE 

 HUNTING JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BLACKMOOR VALE HOUNDS; 



FOR 1830—1831. 



Saturday, August 28th, 1830. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met for the first time 

 this season at Tenant's Wood, near Maperton, at eig-hl 

 o'clock, and found a g'ood Utter of Foxes ; running- 

 one hour and fifty-five minutes, when we g-ot away with 

 a young- dog- Fox, and killed in an orchard adjoining 

 Holton 



Tuesday, Aug-ust 31st. 



Met at the Coppley Woods at six, A. M., near 

 King-weston and Somerton ; — finding- a litter of Foxes, 

 and when on the point of killing one, were oblig-ed to 

 stop, on account of the corn standing' towards King-wes- 

 ton, — went back and recovered another of the Foxes, 

 running- in the whole/oMr hours, when we stopped, the 

 heat becoming- excessive, 



Tuesday, September 7th. 



Met at eig-ht o'clock, at Stourton Inn ; drawing- 



Hicks's Park, blank ; walking- the Hounds on to the 

 Great Bradley Woods, where we found at eleven o'clock 

 a sing-le old Fox, which Ave ran for two hours with a 

 very middling- scent, when we stopped the Hounds, as 

 they were crossing- the Bath road for Long-leat, the 

 Earths in that direction being open, and the Hounds 



having- twenty miles home 



Carried forward. . . . 



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