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houndvS at the Trent Covers ; thence he bore 

 away for Nether Compton, but, leaving it on 

 the right, we worked along the brook, hunting 

 slowly into Trent Barrow and up to Chorlock 

 Hill, where hounds were stopped at after half- 

 past four, after running an hour and twenty- 

 minutes, the first part fast, the latter more 

 slowly — which, perhaps, was as well, or not a 

 horse would have been there to see — especialh- 

 as the latter part was run b}' moonlight, and 

 a long, weary, and dark ride home some of 

 the field must have had. 



December 23rd. — 



The meet was fixed for Clifton Wood, and 

 the frost that threatened to be sharp last night 

 had not come to much, so we trotted gailv off 

 to cover, with every anticipation of a good da3''s 

 sport, which was realised in the afternoon. In 

 the morning we did not do much. Finding 

 one fox in Clifton Wood, we hunted him in 

 the direction of Coker Wood, where he ran us 

 out of scent. But later in the day a little 

 wood under Beerhackct produced a vcr}- different 



