78 1885. 



February 26th. — 



We met at Fontleroi, and began by 

 drawing the usual neighbouring covers blank, 

 but we soon found in the Holts. Ran out by 

 Rowditches, and back again. Then he tried 

 again, and got this time as far as Ashcombe, 

 but, unwilling to leave the home of his youth, 

 he managed to have another look at the Holts, 

 and then ran boldly out b}^ Ashcombe again, 

 on by Tripp's Gorse, to Plumley, ran its length, 

 and back again down to Biddlescombe, on to 

 the Higher Holts, straight through Rowditches, 

 and out into the open below ; turning right, 

 he headed for Brickfields and Windmill Hill, 

 to Haj/^don Vicarage, along the Sherborne Park 

 wall, nearly to North Wootton Copse, then 

 into Sherborne Park, across it, through the 

 dried fern of the Deer Park, past the corner 

 of Goathill, on through Crackmore ; and at the 

 Lodge they nearly had him, but he turned 

 sharp over the wall, and got to ground in the 

 precipitous cutting on the north side of the 

 high road, after giving us a good hour's gallop. 

 With this, the day waning, we had to be content. 



