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December 29th. — 



We had to start early, for the meet was 

 considerably further off than anything we are 

 accustomed to. But we got to Kingweston 

 about eleven o'clock, and found Orbell and his 

 dog pack looking ready and fit for work. They 

 found a brace of foxes in Down Wood, one of 

 the outling Kingweston covers, and, with very 

 bad scent, ran one of them in the direction of 

 Charlton Mackrell ; came soon back to the other 

 and ran him to ground in Kingweston Park, in 

 a sluice out of a pond, and there we left him. 

 We had a slow hunting run in the afternoon 

 from Butleigh Wood, first in the wood, then 

 out towards Wootton, doubling back on to 

 Dundon Beacon, into a small hanging cover ; 

 but we forced him out thence, and over the 

 Beacon, running in to him at the foot of it, 

 on the edge of Sedgemoor, by Redlake. The 

 run occupied about an hour, and the Master 

 presented the brush to Miss Hood. There 

 was a good field out, and a strong force of 

 pedestrians. 



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