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begiiminff with thirty minutes to ground from Coal 

 Mire to Bunhill Rocks and finkhing with a great hunt 

 of an hour and forty-five minutes, first, all over Hamil- 

 don and then away to Hemstone Rocks, Sittaford 

 Tor, Whitehorse Hill and Dart Head, where hounds 

 earthed their fox within half a mile of Cranmere Pool. 

 This was a very hard day for horses, the moor being 

 very wet, and some of the ground was very bad indeed. 



In the following season, Widdicombe was again 

 the trysting place on the occasion of another really 

 great day, the 14th of January, 1905. 



The morning kept us fully occupied with a run of 

 fortv-five minutes from Bag Park over Ham il don bv 

 Blackaton, Comdon Tor, Yar Tor and Cupboard 

 Holt, to earth in the Dartmoor country under 

 Cumpston Tor, followed by a quick circular fifteen 

 minutes around Challacombe to ground. This alone 

 would have sent us home satisfied, but more was in 

 store. 



The run of the day may be said to have begun at 

 Warren Inn. where a moved fox had crossed the road 

 with something like a ten-minutes" start, a big 

 handicap with a Dartmoor afternoon fox. Leaving 

 King's Oven on the right, they ran over Fern worthy 

 Little Newtake, Assycombe Hill, Hemstone Bog and 

 Hill, into Teignhead Newtake and on to Sittaford 

 Tor. From here the fox took a big ring by Varra- 

 combe bottom, Whitehorse TTill, Dart Head and 

 Stat's Hill. He was viewed scarcely a hundred yards 

 before the pack, but was headed at Sittaford Tor, 

 which caused a check that saved his life, though he 

 was not given up until Femworthy was reached. 

 The nm was very fast until the fatal check. I know 

 one of the field who got as far as the RA. signalling 

 post on Whitehorse Hill and there climbed to the top 



