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over the Middleway road and ran down to the 

 lower end of Goosefurlong. From this point they 

 crossed the Hambridge Lane, and going over 

 Withial, they passed Stone Farm, and just short 

 of Purbrook Chapel they took a line beside the 

 road through Lottisham and Rookery Farm, and 

 over Lower Farm towards Stone House. Swing- 

 ing to the left at the brook, hounds then headed 

 for Park Wood, and once more crossing Lower 

 Farm and running down to the brook, they 

 crossed, and going through West Wood, reached 

 Wrangles, where the covert was being cut. Head- 

 ing for Naydens, there was a momentary check, 

 but a hound named Drosky recovered the line 

 silently, and as the Master luckily saw her and 

 put the pack on to her, we went on without loss 

 of time towards New Inn Corner. We were now 

 once more running the road, but hounds swinging 

 off it to the right, ran down to Bridgend Farm, 

 and with a good head swung along by the side of 

 the river to Mendip Farm. Here just behind the 

 farmhouse they came up to their quarry, and 

 puUed down a fine dog-fox in a thick brambly 

 fence. The time was one hour and seven minutes, 

 and we had never seen our fox from the start. 

 The measured distance was ten miles, and except 

 for the one check when Drosky hit off the line so 

 curiously, there had been no time for any one to 

 get up. There were only three people really in 

 this run from find to finish, though a handy road 

 enabled some to be there to see hounds break up 



