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terrier bc'ltiui: three more on the same day from the 

 drain in Well C ^"~" -^ i'e hounds were r unning yet 

 another. This :. :he 22nd January, 1887. 



On the next . :ay, 25th, Lindridge was the 



base of operations. Finding in Whit elands, the hne 

 lay tiuoagh WocxL Kings wockL Well Covert. Sands, 

 Bdlamarsh and Chudleigh Rock- back by Ugbrooke 

 Pazk to Ideford, Humber Moor and Xewtake. Here 

 the pack divided, one lot going to Kings wood and 

 Wood, where they were stopped from another fresh 

 fox : the otifeer lot meanwhile g'oing to Lidwell and 

 neari^ into Teignmooth, returning by Bishopsteignton 

 to Wood- 



The number of foxes, and the absence of a proper 

 whip, resulted in hounds often dividing. Sometimes 

 both lots killed their fox, and once they both ran 

 to ground in the same earth after taking different 

 lines. 



Rou^ weather is not always hurtful to scent. On 

 the 12th February, a day of cold and heavy rain- 

 storms with a gale of wind, a fox. bolted from Lidwell 

 drain, took the pack at a terrific pace to Oxton and 

 back to 3£anihead. where the pack turned down into 

 Oxton again, killiTig him in the laurels by the big 

 pond there. An old dog fox- 

 On the 19th of the same month, another old fox was 

 killed at Dunchideock after two hours and ten 

 minutes without hounds being once cast. The pack 

 had met at Windy Cross and found in Willis's Gorse, 

 the ran taking place in the hilly country touching 

 Doddiscosnbslei^i, Cotleigh, Longdown, Pemdge, 

 Culver, Hcdcombe BumeD, fifth milestone Okehamp- 

 toa road, ^£r. Snow's coverts, Perridge again and 

 Dunfhideock. 



The staying powers of the pack were well tested a 



