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January 10th. Penn Inii. A fir.i c: a h-.:iL±:^i 

 horsemen. Apparently a loiLg draw, for tbey found 

 at Cockington- Scent was very bad, but the 

 was patirait and jndkioos in his casts, the 

 being a slow hunting mn c^ tfaiee bonis, "****^^ 

 the fox to ground in a creriee in a rock on &e sea 

 c3oast close to Torquay. A stranger from the IGd- 

 lands, out for the first time^ con^liiiiadsd the 

 master on the way the pack hunted and stock to 

 th^ fox through difi&culties. 



January 12th. Beggar's Bush. Another vay 

 hard and xinlucky day. After hunting up to a fox 

 which had secured a sood start from ck)se to the 

 place of meeting, and running him hard to Castle 

 Dyke and Luscombe ; after rectifying a divisicKi <rf 

 the patk. and getting the whole c^ it back to the Kile 

 of the hunted fox. and brii^ing him back to Ash- 

 combe ; after having been misied th»e by a £dbe 

 hidoa ; and after recovering the line and inmm^ 

 his fox to a standstill in OxtiMi, the master had the 

 mortincation of seeing his hounds dtange on to a 

 fresh fox at the last -mentioned place, whirfi l»ought 

 th^n back to near Ideford, whae they were stopped. 

 It was freezing hard all day. 



January ITth. Reddaford Water. Could do 

 nothing with the Yamer fox ; but from Bagti^ had 

 a good hour and ten minutes to ground in Buddboid 

 Woods. 



January 24th. Two IkOle Oak. A large field. 

 Killed in the open after a screaming twenty-five 

 minutes from Lee Brake without a check. 



January- 26th. BeHaiuarsh. Killed a fox after 

 three-quarters of an hour's himting. and had a long 

 ringing run with another around Lindridge, Wood and 

 Ugbrooke, ending with darkness. 



