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remarkable run from Leeworthy, or rather from 

 Bratton Fleming. The Master, Lord and Lady 

 Ebrington, Mrs. Froude Bellew, Miss C. Clarke, 

 Miss Halliday, Miss Lock-Roe, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Seymour Bouverie, Miss St. John Mildmay, Capt. 

 and Miss Kinglake, Messrs. Yearsley, Watson 

 Snow, Hamilton, Hext, Richards, Seldon, T. 

 Horn, Dennis, Ferguson, Roberts, Bertram Pott, 

 Roope, Morgan, Capt. Karslake, Hon. A. For- 

 tescue, Hon. L. J. Bathurst, Mr. Ian Amory, 

 Lord Valletort, and Mr. A. Locke were out. 

 The pack was again kennelled at Nightacot as 

 upon the occasion of our last visit to this 

 country, and once more Mr. Bowden fed the 

 hungry and thirsty. Tufters were taken to 

 Smithapark Wood and thrown into the same 

 spot which yielded such a bountiful supply of 

 hinds last time, opposite Button Hill, and almost 

 immediately found a stag, which, after a turn or 

 two in covert took the now familiar line up the 

 valley towards Tithecombe, passing by Button 

 Bridge. Anthony stopped the tufters here, and 

 Arthur galloped off for the pack, which, after 

 a little delay in the Twitchen valley, were laid 

 on by the Friendship Inn at five minutes to 

 one. Away they raced over much the same 

 line as before, by Chapman's Barrows, and on 

 the left of Sadler's Stone, leaving the Chains 

 wall to the right, and so over Furzehill to Hoar 

 Oak Water ; up over Cheriton Ridge and down 

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