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Wootton. But here our fox must have been 

 headed, for he turned back to Round Chimneys, 

 up the brook again to Little Butterwick, where 

 he turned left and crossed it. i.\nd here six of 

 the field had the best of it — three, we may say, 

 b}^ land, and three b}^ water ; three jumping it, 

 and three fording it — but the pace was so slow 

 the rest soon caught them up before reaching 

 Holnest Park, which they crossed, and went on 

 to Sweet Hills, through it, and on for Castles, 

 where he ran us out of scent after running about 

 two hours. From here we trotted on to Bide's 

 Gorse, where we found, and, running sharply 

 through Hill fields Covers towards the hills, we 

 whipped off at the foot of them, for the Master 

 well knew the}' were still slippery. We then 

 went back to the Grange Woods — at least, those 

 who remained did — but a good man}' of the field 

 went home from here, and did not sta}^ for the 

 bus}' run in the afternoon of about an hour and 

 a-half through Grange, Gore, and Prince's Wood, 

 and back again, and then on to the open 

 country towards Remedy, and in the direction 

 of Upcerne Wood, before reaching which hounds 



