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Our time was well filled in on the 6th January, 

 1900, with a capital day's sport from Reddaford 

 Water. First, a run through Lustleigh Cleave to the 

 Rubble Heap ; then a big ring with another fox, 

 hounds running in view for the last mile and killing 

 him on the Heap before he could get in ; finishing 

 with a run from Yarner to Stover over a deligiitful 

 line with plenty of big sound banks. 



Despite a cold and stormy day with a falling glass, 

 the pack gave a most creditable hunting run of two 

 hours and a half on the 27th January, 1900, with just 

 a holding scent, all over and around Lindridge and 

 Ugbrooke, the extreme points being Bishopsteignton 

 and the Thorns. They made a good point on the 

 24th of the following month, finding their fox at 

 Granite Lodge, and after taking him bv Langaller and 

 Brimley, through Yarner, Houndtor Ridge and 

 Lustleigh Cleave, and on beyond Lustleigh Rectory, 

 brought him back to the Cleave and earthed him 

 there. The 17th of March in the same year at He}i:or 

 Buildings was a day of recurrent snowstorms with 

 some pretty sport in between, and on the 20th the 

 moor was imder snow and hunting impossible. 



A very sharp biu-st of twenty-eight minutes after 

 meeting at Leighon on the 24th ^larch, 1900, pro- 

 duced an unusual amount of grief amongst the field. 

 One of the joint-masters, ^Ir. W. M. G. Singer, broke 

 his arm, Mr. Hayter-Hames and four others were 

 dovm. together and Bovey took a hea\y fall on 

 Challacombe. Snow was still lying on the moor and 

 was the cause of some of these disasters. 



Probably the best run during Bovey's time was 

 one that came off from AViddicombe on a certain 

 Saturday ; I have not the exact date. The first part 

 was all over Challacombe, Hamildon and Birch Tor 



