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the big Wiltshire woodlands that lie on one side of 

 the B. y. Hunt country, and the Grange Woods at 

 Middlemarsh, which touch the Cattistock territory, 

 are pleasant riding in the spring. They give us 

 a few extra days before the close of the season, 

 when it is too late to ride over the open country, 

 where the chain-harrow is at work and the gaps 

 in the fences are being filled up. 



There still remains the Pylle country, which 

 was formed by Mr Guest, and has given us many 

 a good day's sport. It was here that Mr Guest 

 had what he considered the best day he ever en- 

 joyed with any hounds. 



It was on April 13, 1889, that Mr Guest's 

 private pack met at Pylle Station. Scent in the 

 early part of the day was very bad, and when, 

 after drawing Popplar Lane Wood blank, the 

 whipper-in viewed a fox in Folly Wood, hounds 

 could scarcely acknowledge the line. Bajazet, 

 however, caught a view, and with a fine chorus 

 hounds forced the fox out and over the road to- 

 wards the railway. At the third fence from the 

 road there was some grief over wire, one member 

 of the field being put down by it and another 

 getting it at his horse's breast, while Charley, the 

 whipper-in, had his horse's knees cut. Happily 

 the Master saw the wire in time and got over 

 safely. Hounds ran on over Cockmill Farm into 

 the wood, and at the top of the hill went along 

 the lane as if for Pilton Park Farm. Bearing out 

 of the lane, however, short of Pilton, they flashed 



