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leigh, down past Ehmchideock to Ide, back by Lower 

 Brenton to Haldon Byes, through that covert to 

 Cotleiffh and down to Culver, on to Holcombe 

 Bumell Wood and 3Ir. Snow's covert behind Lamb 

 Lin, then crossed the Exeter road mto Pemdge, and 

 was killed in the open below Dunchideock at the end 

 of two hours and a half without hounds being cast. 



A curious ending was that to a run from Oxton on 

 the 15th January.'. After some work in cover with a 

 leash of foxes, one of them set his mask for Powder- 

 ham by way of Helwell and Ringsdon, and after 

 crossing the park to Powderham Belvidere, he went 

 down to the marshes, crossed the Great Western 

 Railway and was drowned in the estuary of the Exe. 

 His carcase was picked up after the tide went down, 

 and brought to Oxton that evening. The pack had 

 a narrow escape in crossing the railway as a train 

 passed down between the fox and the hounds. The 

 unusual finish gave rise to talk about a drag, a bag- 

 man from over the Exe, etc., but the plain truth was 

 that, once on the open marshes, the fox never had a 

 chance to turn. As for a drag or a bagman. I can 

 testify that 'Sh. Studd, whom I have had the pleasure 

 of knowing intimately for over thirty years, had a 

 horror of such practices, which belong to a different 

 category.' altogether from that of the staghunt inci- 

 dent. 



A frequent place of meeting was the sixth mifestone 

 on the Exeter and Okehampton road for the purpose 

 of drawing Mr. H. Drew's and >L:. Snow's coverts, 

 and the country to the north of them. From that 

 fixture on the 18th January the pack killed a fox in 

 Cotleigh Wood after an hour and a half* s ringing run. 



It makes one en^^ous in these days to read of a 

 brace of foxes being found at the Thorns and of the 



