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Broug-ht forward .... 

 Saturday, February 26th, 1831. 



Met this day at Pointington Ridg-e, with a driving" 

 rain, and wind blowing* very hard from the north-west ; — 

 drawing' the Gorse between Coombe Farm and Trent we 

 found a g-allant dog" Fox immediately, g'oing* away on 

 pretty g"ood terms over the Earths at Coombe Farm to 

 Sherborne Field, and across the water meadows at Oborne 

 by Crackmoor to Sherborne Park, and over the Earths 

 at Hanover to Plumley and by the Caundle Holts near- 

 ly to the river, bordering" the Plantations adjoining" 

 Stock House; where he was headed: turning" a little 

 upward over the fallows by Mr. Digby's Brake for 

 the enclosures near Hoi well, and crossing" the river 

 near Holwell Church, where the Pack ran into him 

 in the open near Holwell Common in two hours and 



two minutes, over fifteen miles of ground 



Friday, March 1st. 



Met this day at Leigh Common ; — finding" a brace 

 of Foxes in that disting-uished and hig-hly respected 

 sportsman's Plantations, Mr. W. Phelips, at Cuck- 

 lington, and in a brilliant burst of forty minutes, killing 

 a fine dog- Fox in the open close to Wyke House. After 

 drawiiig" 'till half-past two, we found a second in King's 

 Wood, near Alfred's Tower, running" one to Earth and 

 g"etling" away with the other throng"h the whole line of 

 the Stourton Covers to Pen Forest, and crossing; the 

 Wincanton Road to Stoke Trister, where this gallant 

 Fox made his way to the Plantation at Cucklington and 

 throug"h it without a turn by Shanks House to Buckhorn 

 Weston, and down the fine vale to Rodgrove Coppice, 

 and to the River Cale, which he crossed ; traversing" the 

 whole extent of the vale to Temple Coombe, and Hor- 

 singtou Marsh, Yeauston, and nearly to the villag"e of 

 Henstridg"e ; turning his head direct for the Cover of 

 Inwood, where we viewed him, dead beat, close before 

 the Hounds, when they unluckily changed to afresh 



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