8o 1885. 



scent backwards and forwards to Frith, finally 

 stopping hounds towards four o'clock ; and so 

 home. 



February 28th. — 



The meet was at the Kennels, and, the 

 da}' bright and fine and the glass rising, so 

 our anticipations of scent became more cheerful, 

 and were verified by the pace at which hounds 

 dashed after their fox from Mr. Dodington's 

 lower cover, over Stowell Hill and Martin's 

 Wood, through it, pointing for Teniplecombe 

 Station, but, swinging up through the North 

 Woods, he was heading for Cheriton Wood, 

 when a fresh fox jumped up in an orchard, 

 and hounds took up this line, and ran him 

 sharply through Mr. Dodington's Park, back to 

 Teniplecombe Wood and West Wood, which 

 they left on their right, and ran straight into 

 Inwood ; after two or three turns round the 

 cover, they forced him out at the lower end, 

 and killed him, after a really fast run of just 

 over the hour. We then drew West Wood, 

 North Wood, Stowell, and Mr. Dodington's 



