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him round a field, knocking him over once or 

 twice, and finall}- brought him to ba}', too blown 

 himself to do more than express his opinion, till 

 he pushed him once more into the open trench, 

 where a " holloa " called up the rest of the pack, 

 and Orbell had the satisfaction of handling this 

 full grown dog fox at the end of fifty-nine 

 minutes. 



December 3rd. — 



A b3^e-day at Redly ncli, where foxes were 

 plentiful. Having killed one in the Park, where 

 two more were "holloaed," we then went to 

 Moor Wood, and ran over a deep gully in the 

 direction of Roundhill House ; bearing left from 

 there he made the best of his wa}- over a wild 

 and badly drained country, with rough fences 

 that took some doing, into Black Slough and 

 Stavordale Wood, over some of the earths 

 in Stourton, crossing the fields opposite the 

 "Convent" in the Stour Head Woods, and there, 

 at the end of thirty-six minutes, the hounds ran 

 into him, and Orbell broke him up under the 

 great silver fir. Another fox was found in 



