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Broug-ht forward .... 



After dig-g-ing from four 'till twenty minutes 

 BEFORE SIX, the Hounds were taken their twenty 

 miles home, the Fox being- with difficulty got out, by 

 the aid of a friendly moon ! 



Friday, October 29th, 1830. 



Met at Inwood ; — finding* a very old and g'allant dog" 

 Fox immediately, after three ineffectual attempts (being" 

 headed by a large and anxious Field) g-etting- away 

 on very g-ood terms to Toomer Farm, and under Frith 

 Wood, which they skirted, the Hounds pressed him at 

 the top of their speed through Purse Caundle to Hanover 

 Wood, and away for Flumley Wood, and New Lease 

 Coppice, and across the enclosures for the village of 

 Stourton Caundle, crossing^ the Caundle River for the 

 Plantations and Park adjoining Stock House, and leaving" 

 the main Covers to the left, making" their way over 

 Blackrow Common for the River Lyddon, at which point 

 the Pack beg"an to consider him as their own, running" 

 him at a killing pace by Rooksmoor, to Hazelbury Com- 

 mon, where the Pack divided ; one column of Hounds 

 running into the hunted Fox in mew, one field short 

 of Deadmoor Wood, and the other column of Hounds 

 running" their Fox to a drain under Wonston Hill, near 

 Mappowder, after a splendid run of tico hours and 

 fifty-jive minutes over a good tioenty miles of ground. 

 The dead Fox being" given to the Pack on the drain, 

 THE OTHER WAS SAVED, and bolted in security, 

 after the Pack was sent home 



Friday, November 2nd. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met this day at Maiden 

 Bradley, and found their Fox, after drawing" for thirty 

 minutes in Penny's Wood, adjoining the great Bradley 

 Covers; — going away under Horsingsham Hill, for the 

 Marquis of Bath, and through his finely extensive 



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