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of Mr. Pitt instantly recognised his being in 

 difficulties, as at some distance on the oppo- 

 site bank he left the covert, when the hounds 

 again went to work in earnest, and brought 

 the line back to the lower end of Stowel 

 Park, after crossing which they made a 

 sudden turn to the right. On getting out 

 of the park, hearing hounds running merrily 

 on my left, I steered my course in that 

 direction, and soon discovered that I had got 

 to the other portion of the pack, and ascer- 

 tained when they divided this lot hunted 

 the line through Star Wood to Withington 

 and Chedworth Woods, where they had been 

 ringing the changes with various foxes all 

 day. Turner was in the act of getting his 

 hounds together when they hit upon the 

 scent of a fox that had gone away unob- 

 served, and the little detachment settling 

 down, ran him a pretty scurry to Compton, 

 where fortunately they fell in with the re- 

 mainder of the forces. The latter had taken 

 their fox from Stowel Park to Hangman's 

 Stone, and on to Puzedown, from whence he 

 worked his way back and got into a drain at 

 Mr. Walker's at Compton. The hounds so 

 well deserved him that Mr. Colmore deter- 



