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more Farm to Luscombe Wood. From there the 

 pack flew down the valley below Brounston to Velwell 

 House and Wood Copse to ground. The time was 

 sixty minutes, and the pace terrific throughout. Mr. 

 Rendell, who rode two horses, Ladybird and Peter, 

 almost to a standstill, considers it the fastest in- 

 country run for the time occupied that he ever saw. 

 Hounds were several times in the same field with 

 their fox. It is uncertain whether they changed, but 

 one may at least doubt whether the stoutest fox 

 could have stood before them so long at the pace. 

 The field were " spread-eagled," though some of 

 them nicked in from time to time at the turns. 



Here is a note of a run that Mr. Rendell considers 

 to have been the best he ever saw — and that is no 

 faint praise. 



Saturday, 10th March, 1906. Manaton. Find in 

 Luckern Valley. After being headed and getting a 

 start, the fox makes his point for Eastdon Down, 

 passes Gratnar and dips down the valley under 

 Shapeley Farm and over the enclosures to Moor 

 Gate ; there he turns first left-handed over Shapeley 

 Common and then to the right and crosses the 

 Moreton road. Up to this point, hounds have had to 

 hunt the line over burnt commons and ploughed 

 fields, flinging themselves for'ard all the time. Now 

 they are on virgin soil and able to run in earnest. 

 They fly over Bush Down to the Lakeland valley, 

 climb Hurston Ridge, leave Fernworthy Newtake to 

 their right and scream over Stannon and White 

 Ridge, breaking the wall into Teignhead Newtake 

 and running by Grey Wethers to Sittaford Tor and 

 the bogs beyond, as if for Broadmarsh and Fur Tor. 

 But the pace is too good up-wind, and the fox turns 

 down the Varracombe bottom to Teignhead Cottage, 



