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week later, on the 26th February, when a two-hours' 

 hunt from Canonteign in the morning was followed 

 in the late afternoon by a run of an hour and forty 

 minutes in the ^Vhiteway, Haldon, Doddiscombsleigh 

 and Ashton country, ending with blood. This fox was 

 found at four o'clock. 



Mr. Studd's diar\' contains the interesting note 

 that on the last day of this season a white fox was 

 said to have stolen away from Long Covert, Bella- 

 marsh, which, as also the Sands, hounds had drawn 

 blank. How far the report is true is doubtful when 

 it is considered how often the Ugbrooke coverts were 

 visited by hounds in those days without ever finding 

 such a fox.i 



After a very successful time during cubhunting, 

 Mr. Studd's second season opened with a good but 

 twisting hunting run to ground ; and the second 

 week in November furnished a good hour and a 

 quarter with a fox found at Beggar's Bush which 

 took refuge under a bam at \Aliiteway. whence he 

 could not be dislodged. 



Other good runs this season included an hour and 

 thirtv-five minutes from Sands, killin g close to 

 Mamhead House ; a ver\* smart gallop from War- 

 borough to Mamhead, and thence with a fresh fox 

 round Oxton and Mamhead and on to Lidwell : a 

 four-and-a-haK hours* hunt from Woodlands to 

 Eastdon with a bad scent in a north-east wind ; and 

 a ver\- hard day from Windy Cross. A very unusual 

 line, at least in modem days, was that taken on 

 Christmas eve by a Luscombe fox which ran to 

 the cliffs at Hole Head and apparently got in. 

 Time, thirty-five minutes ; ver\- fast. Returning to 



^ A man I have no reasoa to disbe&eve. told me in tiie "— ■"«■ ai 1914 

 that he frequently saw a silver fox in Tav Mai^ on Dartmoor. 



