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seat of the Earl of Cork, and across the rale to Nunney, 

 where they ran their Fox to a drain at the end of one 

 hour and five minutes, bolting^ and killing him on the 

 drain 



Friday, January 14th, 1831. 



A large Field met the Blackmoor Vale Hounds this 

 day at Stock House, from whence we walked the Hounds 

 to Rooksmoor, where a brace and half of Foxes were 

 soon found, the Hounds going- away with one to Dead- 

 moor, and over Hazelbury Common to Humber Wood 

 and Shortwood, at the edge of which Cover we were 

 brought to a check, the Fox having been evidently cour- 

 sed by a sheep dog : from this place we got upon him 

 again, near Canning Court Dairy House, hunting him 

 on had terms io the King Stag Inn, where we heard 

 that he had been seen crossing the river for Stock Wood; 

 to this place the Hounds were trotted on, where they 

 got up to him and killed, after two hours and fifty 

 minutes very hard work. Upon taking up the head of 

 this very old dog Fox, it was discovered that he tvas 

 the same Fox which we found in Rooksmoor on the 

 twenty-ninth of January, 1830, running him to a 

 rabbit's hole in Shortwood on that day, in one hour and 

 forty minutes, ear-marking and letting him go 



Tuesday, January, 18th. 



Found this day in Annis Hill Gorse; — going away 

 close to his brush, and maintaining a very sharp burst 

 indeed for forty minutes, when he was unfortunately cour- 

 sed by a cur, which brought us to hunting terms, and we 

 eventually lost him near Kingsdon, pointing for the 

 Kingweston Woods, the Hounds appearing to mark 

 him, though not firmly, at some drains near a farm 

 house 



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