166 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



Stoke Common, and crossing Melcombe Park had 

 gone on as if for Wrenswell. Being headed, 

 hounds swung round and made for Short Wood, 

 where the whipper-in succeeded in stopping them 

 after forty minutes' hard running. With the 

 third fox three and a half couple of hounds ran 

 to Armswell, and were stopped at Plush at the 

 end of a fast thirty minutes. 



On November 28, in the same year of 1894, we 

 met at Warr Bridge, and late in the afternoon 

 went away with our second fox from Cook's 

 Plantation, and crossing the road to Thornhill 

 Obelisk, swept past the front of Thornhill House 

 and across the river Lyd to Lydlinch Common. 

 Passing through the corner of Brickies Wood, and 

 leaving Hyde's Withybed on our left, we went 

 down over the meadows for Bodmoor, and then 

 turning short to the left and running past New 

 Gorse, we came to the turnpike at the back of the 

 Green Man Inn, and going over it, went up to 

 Pulham Bectory, leaving Holwell Gorse on our 

 right. A straight line from here took us to 

 Humber Wood, where a brace of fresh foxes were 

 soon on foot, and as night was fast closing in, the 

 Master reluctantly blew his horn and called hounds 

 off. This was a fine sporting run of just over an 

 hour, and it covered a large extent of country. 



The Cheriton Vale is another part of the hunt 

 territory that it is delightful to ride over. You 

 can stride over its fine grass enclosures, and jump 

 well on to the top of its wide banked doubles, and 



