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Broug-ht forward .... 

 minutes killed Mm in a cyder house at a bamlet 

 called Dark Harbour, adjoining" the parish of Cheriton, 

 after a g-ood hunting- run of two hours and fifty-five 

 minutes 



Friday, November 23rd, 1830. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met on this day at 



Stourton Inn ; drawing- Norwood and Deverell Lon^- 



wood, blank, but finding m a small patch of Cover on 

 the Mere Downs ; — g'oing- away all hut in vietv of their 

 Fox, and after a sharp and severe burst, killing him 

 in Deverell Long-wood in forty-five minutes. Drew Kil- 

 ming-ton Common and West End Wood, blank ; though 

 we had a drag- over the W^est End Earth 



Friday, November 26th. 



Met on this day at Elscombe Wood; — the wind at 

 south-east, with a cold blue haze above our head ; — found 

 a brace of Foxes immediately, and after a short burst, 

 ran the hunted Fox to a drain near the Cover ; in a few 

 minutes he was bolted, and after two hours and three 

 quarters, during- which he merely ran a ring- of a few 

 miles, he was killed near Wolston on the hill 



Tuesday, November 30th. 



Met at Cad bury Castle; drawing- the Plantation 



there and Sparkford Wood, blank; the Hounds were 

 then taken on to Annis Hill, where they found a brace 

 and half of Foxes; g'oing- away with one nearly to 

 Ilchester, across the vale, and running- him to a drain 

 in forty minutes near Hazelgrove House ; whilst at- 

 tempting- to dig him the Hounds were hallooed away to 

 another that had been viewed on his foil, dead beat, 

 which they ran in and killed 



Friday, December 3rd. 



Met at Leig-h Common, near Wincanton; drawing 



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