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the hill sides. In the steep hanging cover over 

 Pylle a find was proclaimed, and, honnds getting 

 close on the line, ran him sharpl}' back over the 

 brook (where one gentleman got his horse down 

 badly, and I fear he was injnred), along the line 

 of the covers and into Cockhill, and to ground 

 there. We then went on to Ditcheat, bnt did 

 not find again till we got to Milton Wood, and 

 an over-excited field "holloaing" one fox, while 

 the Master was rnnning another in the cover, 

 got half the pack ont and spoilt the possibilit}^ 

 of a rnn. The leading honnds conld not hold 

 the line at all, and in spite of the Master's 

 patient efforts to redeem the mistake it was too 

 late, thongh he cast ronnd the Pennard side 

 and back to the wood, bnt all in vain. Scent, 

 always bad, was getting worse. Onr next find 

 was on the top of Creech Hill, in Air. B. 

 Napier's cover, and we ran him back along the 

 hill down to Milton Wood, and then away over 

 the hill heading for Pink Wood ; bnt the scent 

 was hopeless and the day \\as getting late, so 

 at 4.30 the Master whipped off abont a mile 

 the other side of Brntou. 



