i88s. 45 



January 12th. — 



The enforced rest of last week has so far 

 restored matters that Tom was able to be out 

 again, so the hounds put in an appearance at 

 the Cross Keys, at Lydford, but they were 

 still unsupported by the Master. Certainly 

 the weather was not propitious for any one 

 recovering from a severe cold, and there was 

 so much frost on the ground that we did not 

 throw off till quite twelve o'clock, when it 

 was supposed that we could ride with safety. 

 Possibly "the sweet little cherub that sits up 

 aloft," or the presiding genius of the chase, was 

 not of the same opinion, for Naydons, Westwood, 

 Park Wood, and Hornblotton Wood were all 

 drawn blank, and it was not till we got to the 

 outlying wood at Lovington that we found. 

 Our fox, pointing first for North Barrow, 

 crossed the Great Western Railway and made 

 for Wearyall ; from here he slightly changed his 

 direction and ran down, with a fair holding 

 scent, to Sparkford Wood, thence over the 

 Castle Cary Road to Chapel Covers, by the 

 brook, and crossed the Wincanton Road, heading 



