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crosses the North Teign to Stonetor and Shovel 

 Down, and is rolled over in the open at Batworthy 

 close under Kestor Rock. Time, one hour and fifty- 

 seven minutes. The point, as the crow flies, from 

 Luckern holts to Stat's Hill is eight miles ; from 

 Stat's Hill to Batworthy four miles ; as hounds ran, 

 rather over fourteen. 



The finish of this run was just spoilt for most of 

 the field through the fog that hung in patches and 

 caused us to miss the hounds when they turned before 

 the end, with the result that only Messrs. W. R. 

 Vicary and L. G. Vicary with the huntsman and 

 second whip were there to see the fox broken up. 

 Mrs. W. Rendell, riding Old Lol, went well through 

 this run. Only one hound, little Bertha, was left out, 

 and she returned to kennels next day. 



The most terrific burst that I remember was one of 

 twenty-two minutes, on the 7th April, 1906, killing 

 in the open. Those who know the stamina of a 

 Dartmoor fox will appreciate what that means. This 

 fox was lying on a naked patch of newly-swaled 

 ground on Assycombe Hill. Our being over the border 

 is accounted for by its being the Hunt Week. The 

 pack got away close to his brush, raced over White 

 Ridge to Sittaford Tor, turned left-handed, and 

 killed in Ladle Bottom. Every one, with the excep- 

 tion of Mr. W. Rendell, was outpaced ; but Mr. 

 G. H. Hext, riding the chord of the arc, was the first 

 there to pick up the fox. 



The dog pack had a first-rate hunt of an hour and 

 five minutes, the greater part of which was in the 

 in-country, on the 11th December, 1906, with one of 

 a brace found in Whiddon Brake after meeting at 

 Goodstone Gate. Rushlade and Pensland Valley, 

 Welstor Farm and Buckland Beacon came in the 



