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Brought forward. . . . 



headed again, crossing- Stalbridg-e Common for the 

 Coppice once more ; but, g-allantly endeavouring- to g-et 

 away, he crossed the river again, Avhere he was ag-ain 

 headed, and ran into in open view, after one hour and 

 five minutes severe and incessant running- 



Tuesday, October 12th, 1830. 



Met at Pen Forest ; — drawing- the whole of that 

 Cover, Cockroad, New Park, Stavordale, Brewham 

 Forest, and King's Wood, without a drag or touch of a 

 Fox ! Finding at twenty-five minutes before one o'clock 

 near West End Wood, running this solitary Fox for 

 three hours and half with an execrable scent and 

 stopping a little after four P. M., when nearly dark, 

 (with twenty miles home) by and with the consent of all 

 present 



Frida}', October 15th. 



Met at Stalbridge Park, which we drew, blank ; — 

 finding, however, a brace of Foxes in Caundle Brake, 

 running from thence to Frith Wood and back for two 

 hours, the hill being lined by carriages and groups of 

 horsemen, and the Foxes headed in all directions : 

 getting away at last, and after a sharp burst by Hen- 

 stridge Bowden, and over the corner of Milborne East 

 Hill, and Stowel, killing him in the open, near Charlton 

 Horethorne, in two hours and fifty minutes hot and hard 



work 



Monday, October 18th. 



Met at Over Compton Lodge, wind south-east, 



with a bright and hot sun over head; found a brace of 



Foxes immediately, and after a sharp and short rally, 

 and when getting him away towards Potter's Lease, &c., 

 the Hounds were hallooed away by the foot people to- 

 wards the Earths at Rotleigh, without any reason, and the 

 Fox was lost, which we were close to, when hallooed 



Carried forward. ... 



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