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by way of Mr. Hayter Hames's, Chagford House, 

 returned over the golf links to Beetor, and was run 

 into at the lower end of Chagford Common. The run 

 lasted two and three-quarter hours, but the first part 

 was very fast. 



The Roister Bridge fixture supplied an old- 

 fashioned in-country hunt of three hours and a half 

 on the 25th November, 1909. Found at Windeatt's 

 Brake, ran hard round Crabbaton Gate, Horner 

 Down and Plantations, back to Ashwell and round 

 to where they found, and then on to Wagland and 

 put him to ground in a drain opposite Mr. Simpson's 

 Brake. 



Another first-rate day in the lower part of the 

 country was the 14th December in the same year, 

 when the field mustered at Cornworthy. The first 

 fox was disturbed in Capton Brake, took the pack at 

 a good pace all round the brakes, across the bottom 

 in the valley and through Broadridge Wood to the 

 Farm and was run into in the valley below. Another 

 fox, from AUaleigh, went away by the village nearly 

 to Blackawton Forces and on to Blackdown and 

 Boston Farm, and from there to Horner and Curtis- 

 knowle, and hounds were whipped off at Weeldon to 

 avoid disturbing the Thursday's draw. A point of 

 seven miles and a half, and the whole nineteen 

 couple up. 



Something like a five-mile point in twenty-eight 

 minutes, as straight as possible from Shapeley Tor to 

 Kestor Rock, was a brilliant finish to a good day's 

 sport on the 5th March, 1910. The morning had 

 been spent among the rabbit-holes of Headland and 

 Challacombe Warrens and the rocks of Grimspound 

 and Birch Tor, resulting in a kill at Vitafer. It was a 

 long ride home for all of us from Kestor. 



