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to Bow Grange, pointing for Staverton, where the 

 fox ran them out of scent after an hour's good 

 hunting run. 



The hunt received much hospitahty at this time, 

 and on the 11th December Mr. Richard Mallock gave 

 a hunt breakfast at Cockington Court, where a large 

 field assembled. The coverts were unfortunately 

 blank, though a drag was touched here and there ; 

 but from Berry Woods the hounds got away with a 

 fox. The frost, however, made riding so dangerous 

 that the master stopped the pack. 



On the 15th from Wolston Green they had a 

 capital fifty minutes with a fox found in Crick Brake 

 which got to ground in Percombe Brake. Another 

 was found in Gurrington Wood and went to earth in 

 Hobbin. 



From Kingskerswell, on February 7th, the hounds 

 killed a fox in the open after a very sharp but twisting 

 forty-eight minutes, the points touched being Coombe 

 Fishacre, Wrigwell, Ipplepen, Berry, Marldon, Comp- 

 ton and Whiddon, the fox being killed between that 

 place and Haccombe. The going was very heavy, 

 and there was a great deal of jumping. Amongst 

 those mentioned as in at the death were Colonel and 

 Miss Ridley, Mr. and Mrs. Luxmoore, Messrs. J. 

 Kitson, W. Clack, Casavetti, Studdy, Riley, Codner, 

 Gibbons, Rendell and Dering. 



At this time, that part of the country formerly 

 hunted by Sir Henry Scale was not regularly hunted, 

 but on March 11th Mr. Ross took his pack to Morley 

 Toll Bar, and was met by a field of over a hundred 

 horsemen. Finding in Storridge Moor and running 

 over the earths at Newhouse, they turned to the left, 

 and, going on to Highmarks, described a circle, and 

 entered Storridge Wood. Here the pack divided, 



