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Mr. Baker's farm, whence she was soon taken out. 

 The run occupied an hour and twenty-five minutes. 



On Christmas Eve, 1907, a slow but pretty hunt 

 of one hour and forty minutes in the locahty of 

 Storridge and Curtisknowle, with a very poor scent, 

 resulted in a kill near Gara Bridge. This was by no 

 means a great or good run, but one to rejoice the 

 heart of the master and test the patience and per- 

 severance of the lady pack. 



Many a good run fails only of being great for want 

 of being straightened out. Of such was the run of an 

 hour and twenty-five minutes from Challacombe on 

 the 20th March, 1909, the points touched being 

 Blackaton, King's Head, Coal Mires, Hamildon 

 Beacon and John Hannaford's at Headland ; Challa- 

 combe and Blackaton again, and then Biddlecombe 

 Down and Avychurch, where the master had the 

 satisfaction of handling his fox. 



As a contrast to the above, a nine-mile point was 

 scored ten days later when the pack opened the 

 South Devon Hunt Week at New Bridge. Hounds 

 got away on the back of a fox from Yar Tor, ran over 

 Corndon Tor to Corndonford, over Jordan and back 

 to Yar Tor, then away to Baveney and Snails House, 

 past Belliver Bridge, and by Runnage Common to 

 Caroline Bog in the Mid-Devon country, on over 

 Merripit Hill and Water Hill to Chagford Common, 

 and marked him to ground in a rabbit-hole at 

 Hurston Farm. Time, one hour and fifteen minutes. 



Widdicombe-in-the-Moor kept up its reputation for 

 good sport on the 3rd April following. A " tough old 

 campaigner " from the side of Hamildon opposite 

 Challacombe piloted the pack, by way of Hookner 

 Tor, Birch Tor, Shapeley Common and Durston to 

 Beetor Brake and thence into Chagford. He left this 



