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same month they had a fast forty-three minutes 

 from Whiteway to Doddiscombsleigh, kilhng in the 

 open. Meeting a fortnight later at Pocombe Bridge 

 the pack had a hard day with a brace of foxes from 

 Mr. Snow's coverts and ran till stopped by darkness. 

 The same coverts provided a fox on the 27th January 

 that gave a great run, first through the heavy wood- 

 lands of Perridge and Cotley and then away north- 

 ward, skirting the town of Crediton and killing at 

 Yeoford Station. St. Valentine's Day was marked 

 by the pack killing a Luscombe fox in the middle of 

 Bishopsteignton village after he had failed to effect 

 an entry into a dwelling-house ; and a very long and 

 tiring run was that of March 1st, in the course of 

 which the pack changed foxes twice, the last one 

 being lost among the farm buildings at Langdon, 

 which he had been seen to enter dead beat. 



At the extreme end of the first season, which 

 finished with an early hunt (8 a.m.) on the 14th April, 

 there were two or three blank days. That these were 

 not due to want of perseverance may be inferred from 

 the fact that on the 4th April the pack found at 

 5.45 p.m. and, after a racing fifteen minutes or so, 

 ran into an old dog fox. 



Towards the end of the season, owing to the death 

 of Lady Rolle, a very large landowner on the east of 

 the Exe, who had always objected to hounds, it 

 became possible to think of hunting on that side of 

 the river, and a desire for opportunity very soon 

 found expression in that locality. By special request, 

 Mr. Studd took his pack to Farringdon House on the 

 2nd April, but the result was disappointing, as it was 

 nearly 5.30 p.m. before a fox was found, and he got 

 to ground in less than half an hour. Nevertheless, 

 this stimulus to the desires of the East Devon sports- 



