146 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



the direction of Rodgrove. Thence towards 

 Shanks, and at a gallop down the lane till there 

 was a short check close by Langham. Hounds 

 soon recovered the line, and crossing a ploughed 

 field, bore down to the South-Western Railway, 

 and passing under the arch, went round towards 

 Eccliffe Mill till the river lay in front. A some- 

 what deep ford here let both hounds and field 

 through, and going fairly straight for Stour 

 Provost, the pack crossed the Todber Road, and 

 leaving Nash covert on their right, came down 

 once more to the river. For a while they ran 

 along the bank till they came to City Mill, where 

 they crossed, the narrow plank bridge at this 

 point allowing the field to get over in single 

 file. At Pentridge the Somerset and Dorset 

 Railway had to be crossed, and now the pace, 

 which up to this point had been good, grew 

 slower. The hounds, however, never left the line, 

 and the big doubles that lay in their path, and 

 which they could cross but slowly, brought out 

 their deeper and more angry tones. In a branch, 

 of the Develish river near Bagber, known in the 

 neighbourhood as the Blackwater, the hind was 

 viewed, but before hounds came up she was ofi", 

 and the field, now reduced to fifteen in number, 

 went on by the Bagber Brickfields and over 

 Haydon Common to Stoke Wake. Here the 

 gallant hind was taken, after a run of two and 

 a half hours, the earlier part of which had been at 

 racing pace. The Lady Theodora Grosvenor and 



