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Broiig-ht forward .... 

 Pen Forest and Cockroad, without a touch : in the 

 Gorse near Stavordale, however, the Hounds challeng-ed 

 on the Avalk of a Fox that had evidently slipped away 

 half an hour before us, hunting- him very beautifully 

 throug-h Stavordale AVood, Brewham Forest, King's 

 Wood, and Grove Wood, and away to Hicks's Park, 

 tchcre they got vp to Mm, and ran him forty minutes 

 close to his brush, when he made his point through 

 Stavordale for Pen Forest, and over the enclosures of 

 Penselwood, to Gaspar Common, and through the 

 Stourton Grounds, (the Hounds close at his heels) and 

 over the terrace for West End Wood, where he unluckily 

 found an Earth open and went to ground, after a very 

 severe run of three hours and twenty minutes ; tico only 

 being up when the horn was blown, the remainder of 

 the Field having- been lost in the fog-! 



Tuesday, December 7th, 1830. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met this day at Coppley 

 or the Kingweston Woods, the wind at south-east, 

 with a heavy and driving rain Avorking up ; — finding 

 and getting him out of these extensive Woods almost 

 immediately, and after a sharp burst (the scent in the 

 open being good) ran him to a drain in King-weston 

 Park in thirty minutes, the Hounds close at his brush ! 

 Leaving the AVhipper-in to dig him, we went back and 

 found a second in the extreme part of the Cover near 

 Butleigh Wood, which we ran for two hours and ten 

 minutes, the scent getting icorscvkS, the rain increased, 

 stopping the Hounds at three P. M. , with the consent 

 of all present, being- unable at length barely to mark 

 his line 



Friday December 10th. 



Met on this day at Coombe Farm; finding in the 



Gorse there immediately, running him to the Earths at 



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