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Ditclieat Cover away for Pylle, choosing the 

 wrong moment to cross the line, as a train was 

 jnst coming np ; bnt, thanks to the signahnan, 

 who closed the crossing gates, and the driver, 

 who bronght his engine qnickly to a standstill, 

 no harm was done, and this same pack ma}^ 

 record in its annals another happ3' escape. Onr 

 fox now took a somewhat circnitons ronte to 

 Evercreech Station, bnt from there he seemed 

 better acquainted with his geography, and ran 

 straight to Creech Hill, and up it, and, though 

 we cast round, and the hounds seemed to mark a 

 faint line, they could not fairl}^ own it, so, well 

 satisfied with a run of an hour and thirty- 

 minutes, and withal rather damp, we left him 

 there and made the best of our way home in a 

 cool north wind. 



December nth. — 



From Lattiford House we trotted straight to 

 Grove Withy Bed, which Mr. Dend}- nnist regard 

 as the apple of his eye, so jealously does he 

 watch over it. As usual, the hounds had not 

 been in it a minute before a whimper proclaimed 



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