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again the other side to the Farley Water, where 

 a sHght check occurred, and not before it was 

 wanted. Up to this the pace had been tre- 

 mendous for forty-five minutes from the time 

 of laying on, and only about twenty-five of the 

 field were well up. Arthur cast up the water, 

 and succeeded in hitting the line just before 

 coming to the Forest w^all, whence hounds bent 

 to the left as thev rose the steep side and 

 came to the Brendon road, crossing it just at 

 Brendon Two Gates and soon made good speed 

 over Brendon Common, till they sank by the 

 Doone Vallev into Badgworthv Water. 



For a little distance the line lay up under 

 the fence of Mr. Snow's Deer Park, and then 

 crossed it to Manor Allotment, whence hounds 

 made for the Chalk Water, by Stowford Bottom. 

 Still driving ahead, thev soon reached Porlock 

 and Lucott commons, and sank to the Chettis- 

 ford Water under Nutscale, from which they 

 rose again at once to cross Wilmersham common 

 and go down through Hole Wood to the Horner 

 valley, where, just under Cloutsham, hounds got 

 up to their deer. Dowm the valley thev drove 

 him to Horner Mill, and then with a sharp 

 turn to the right, went up over Parsonage Side 

 and into Chapel Plantation. Carrying forward 

 through the pines, they ran right into Luccombe 

 village, and the final scene was enacted on the 

 lawn of the Rectory, at a few minutes after 



