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again from this point, forcing- him towards Bradley 

 Knoll, and in the direction of the great Bradley Woods, 

 which Covers he tried to reach ; the gallant Pack, 

 however, were so close upon him, that he ■v^'as com- 

 pelled to seek the village of Maiden Bradley, the Hounds 

 and Fox crossing the road within a hundred yards 

 together, and away across the enclosures for Hor- 

 singshamHill, where the Hounds ran into him in view, 

 and killed^ after a run of fifty-five minutes without a 

 check, (unsurpassed by any run ever seen in that 

 country in the opinion of some distinguished old sports- 

 men who were present,) over nearly ten miles of ground. 



Saturday, September 25th, 1830. 



Met at Butleigh "Wood, near Kingweston, at eight 

 o'clock; after drawing two hours, w^e found a brace of 

 Foxes, or a brace and half, which the Hounds ran mer- 

 rily for nearly tlwee hours, when they were hallooed 

 away to a Fox that had been seen to cross the Park at 

 Kingweston tavo hours before ! 



Wednesday, September 29th. 



Met at Compton Castle; — drawing the Covers 

 there without finding, as well as Tenant's Wood ; 

 finding, however, an old Fox in Charlton Wood, which 

 we hunted with a very bad scent over the fallows and 

 roads (and under a bright staring sun) to Compton 

 Wood, and by trotting the Hounds on, we hit him again 

 under the Earths at Sigwells, where we lost him, being 

 completclij beaten out of scent. The Hounds were 

 then taken to Pound Hill, near the Castle, where they 

 found a young Fox, which they ran one hour and a 

 quarter, and when close before them and dead beat, they 

 lost him amongst the buildings behind Compton Castle, 



into one of which he had evidently crept 



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