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blowing hard. The pack raced a fox from Runnage 

 Common across the lower end of Caroline Bog to Tom 

 Hext's gullies, up the Sousand wall, turned left to 

 the mines and Birch Tor, down to Headland and over 

 Hookner Tor, through Coombe enclosures to Coombe 

 Farm, running under King Tor to Heathercombe, 

 and killed him in the pond at Heatree after fifty-eight 

 minutes. 



Many other days there were, as good as, and better 

 than, the above, but my aim has been to pick out 

 runs typical of the sport in-country and " out over." 

 One that must not be overlooked took place on the 

 15th February, 1913. Taking Hookner Tor and Birch 

 Tor on his way, a fox from Hamildon, opposite 

 Challacombe, crossed the Moreton road, and, after 

 leading the field over the good ground of Stannon 

 and Hartland, went on to Broadamarsh and the bogs 

 beyond, making a point of seven miles and a distance 

 of nine as hounds ran. The master stopped hounds 

 at Broadamarsh at 4.40. 



A small cloud is sometimes the forerunner of a 

 severe storm. In the beginning of the year 1912, the 

 foundations of the hunt were rudely shaken by a 

 quarrel which owed its origin to a comparatively 

 trivial matter, and which, but for misunderstandings, 

 would never have occurred. 



Some dissatisfaction had arisen from the lack of 

 sport in the in-country during the previous season or 

 two. The fact was admitted by the master as well as 

 the members ; but while he attributed the cause to 

 the lack of foxes, there were those among the field 

 who ascribed it to the fact that hounds seldom visited 

 the region in question. Undoubtedly there was some 

 reason on both sides, for the alleged causes were such 

 as to react upon each other. If a master naturally 



