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This run occupied twenty- four minutes. Our 

 next fox we found in the Fifehead Withybed, 

 ran him pretty briskly up to the wood, over 

 Hiscock's Farm, back, under the wood, across 

 to the Mill — fording the river this time — to 

 Ashley Plantation, and lost. Then we had a 

 trot of a mile or so to Prior's Down, where 

 we found, and, jumping about three brooks in 

 succession, we headed for Stalbridge ; bore to 

 the right there, and ran below Henstridge 

 Station for Bow Brook, across the Sherborne 

 and Shaftesbury Road, for Nyland, where we 

 had more than one fox in front of us. But 

 too many cooks spoil the broth, and they got 

 the best of us. This last gallop, over very 

 prett}^ country, lasted about forty-five minutes. 

 The weather still cold and scent very indifferent. 



January 5th. — 



The hounds met at Marston Magna, and 

 trotted on the couple of miles or so to 

 Poddimore, where they found, and ran rather 

 well by Kingsdon Village, and through the 

 wood into Somerton Wood, where they lost 



