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Tuesdav, March 22;ul, 1831. 



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The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met at Charlton Hore- 

 thcrne on Tuesday the twenty-second of March, and 

 Avere walked on to the celebrated Gorse Cover of Caundle 

 Brake, where they found their Fox immediately, going- 

 away close to his brush throiig-h Frith Wood to Plumley 

 Wood, and on to Ashcombe Wood, Haydon, and Goat- 

 hill, making their way throug-h Sherborne Park, to 

 Honeycombe Wood, crossing" the corner of it by Lil- 

 lington, through Thornford to Beerhacket, sinking' the 

 hill at Knig-hton for Frankham Farm, within a few 

 fields of Clifton Wood, pressing- him at a killing pace 

 along" the fine enclosures of the Yetminster Vale to 

 ilvnie, and through the Covers of the Earl of Ilchester at 

 Melbury to Clarkham, in the Parish of Halstock, where 

 they E"ot up to him ; traversing" the open Commons and 

 enclosures at East Chelbnrough at a racing pace nearly 

 to Corscombe, from whence the Pack fairly turned him 

 to West Chelborough, where this g-allant Fox reached 

 his Earth in safety afeic yards heforethe Honnds, after 

 a run of three hours and forty-five minutes, over twenty- 

 five miles of g"round and upwards, through fourteen 

 parishes ! 



Friday, March 25th. 



Mkt this day at the Green Man Inn, at Pulham ; — 

 finding" immediately in Mr. Yeatman's Cover at Rooks- 

 moor, and after a very severe burst of forty minutes 

 by Deadmoor and Fifehead to Haydon, running into 

 cur Fox in the open, killing in view in Holbrook Green. 

 AVhilst the Hounds were eating" this Fox, we heard 

 that another had been seen thirty minutes before^ 

 making" his way to L^dlinch: after hunting" him on 

 bad terms as far as the river, we trotted the Hounds on 

 and hit him into the Stock Woods, (where we disturbed 



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