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ridge fox ran through the Sands to Bellamarsh and 

 back to Well Covert, thence to Lindridge and Wood, 

 on nearly into Teignmouth, through Venn and by 

 Holcombe to Luscombe Wood. Then down by the 

 Castle nearly into Dawlish and away for Mamhead. 

 But before reaching it, the end came, and the fox 

 was pulled down in the road near Mamhead school- 

 house after an hour and three-quarters. The brush 

 was given to Miss Whidborne, who, out that day for 

 the first time, was one of the half-dozen up at the 

 finish. In fact, but for the lack of blood. Major 

 Tucker's diary shews that the sport all through this 

 and the following season was, with the exception of 

 certain " impossible " days, consistently good, two 

 and three foxes being found on most days. 



On Easter Monday, the 2nd April, 1866, there was 

 a burning scent and the pack raced a fox from 

 Borough Wood for forty-five minutes and killed him 

 in the fir plantation at the bottom of Hembury 

 without the semblance of a check. The season 

 closed with a kill, after a hunting run of nearly three 

 hours from the woods adjoining Compston. 



Westlake's second season was prolific of much 

 good sport : a sixty minutes' very fast run from 

 Torbryan to Place, followed by slow hunting to 

 Owlacombe and losing in the fog ; a good hunting 

 run of fifty-nine minutes from Yarner to Buckland ; 

 a two-hours' run from Borough Wood by Goodstone, 

 Storms Down, Owlacombe, Bagtor, Heytor, Hound- 

 tor Rocks, and Honeybag Tor, ending with blood ; 

 an hour and five minutes to ground in the rough 

 country around Hennock ; an hour and fifty minutes 

 from the Sands, all over the Haldon country, 

 killing eventually by Ashcombe Church. These are 

 but samples of the sport recorded. Many foxes were 



