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Luscombe, it took the pack over an hour to force 

 another fox to face the open, from which he soon 

 returned, and nearly two hours to kill him. This was 

 a most creditable performance, for Luscombe and 

 its twin wood Summercombe are, for some reason, 

 perhaps the worst scenting coverts in the country, 

 and the ground, of course, became foiled in addition. 



Owing to the field being thrown out, ^Mr. Studd 

 was the only one to see a good run on the 7th January 

 with an afternoon fox from Black Forest. The line 

 was a crooked one, through Oxton by Kenwood to 

 Mamhead Rectory, across the Park to Oxton again, 

 over Paul's Farm and once more to Oxton and 

 throucrh all the woods there, and finallv bv Havdon 

 Common, Cole Park and Babel's Bridge into Powder- 

 ham, where the master stopped the hounds in the 

 dark. 



On the 22nd January the pack had a very fast 

 burst of forty-five minutes ^\ithout a check, killing 

 their fox in the open by the lower Lodge at Ugbrooke 

 after finding at Humber Moor and running to the 

 Thorns and round by Bellamarsh. 



A Bridford Wood fox gave a good run on the 3rd 

 April, making away to Blackingstone Rock and by 

 Dockham to Marden Do^vn, back through Dunsford 

 Wood, over Pixie Rocks and away towards Lustleigh 

 over the moor, but turned and ran back to ground at 

 Pixie Rocks. Time, one hour and a half. 



It would be wearisome to extend the list. A 

 season is to be judged not by two or three good runs, 

 but by the average of sport throughout its continu- 

 ance. The days referred to above were, mostly, no 

 better and no worse than a great number of others, 

 for the sport all through these two seasons was up to 

 a very high standard. Mr. Studd used to say that 



