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and to Broke, thence across the bit of open 

 ground to Withytree Copse, and back to 

 Broke, whence our fox described a curious and 

 uncertain ring by Ferney Down and Folke 

 Church, and then, running rather better up 

 wind, he went to ground in Withytree Copse. 

 But this fox was consistent in his vacillating 

 character throughout, for his running was 

 uncertain and deficient in decision, and his 

 style of going to ground equall}^ incomplete, 

 for he was easily poked out, and the only thing 

 that was certain about him was his end. 

 Having eaten him, hounds were trotted on to 

 Six Acres, where we found another, and ran 

 him down by Stockbridge, over the road to 

 Leweston Wood, down to Lillington Wood, 

 over the fallows to Honeycombe, and lost. 

 This was all slow. We found another in 

 Honeycombe, and left him there. 



February 23rd. — 



These hounds met at Marston Magna, and, 

 after drawing some doubles in Marston Park 

 Farm, we found our first fox in Marston Cover, 



