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running nearly tlie same line as our morning's 

 fox, he went up the hills, and then ran, very 

 fast, a largish ring in the direction of Plush, 

 and up on the hills we ran him into a little 

 cover, where we thought they had him. It 

 was forty-three minutes up to this, and richly 

 hounds deserved him ; but he managed to give 

 them the slip, and ran the big woods down to 

 the Vale again ; but scent got worse and worse, 

 and near Mappowder we finally gave him up 

 after a real day of fine sport, with better scent, 

 all told, than we have had for some time. 



March 9th. — 



The meet was at Poddimore, and there was 

 a long fruitless draw through Poddimore, Annis 

 Hill, Babcary Thorns, Camel Hill Hangings, 

 and Yarcombe. We had nearly run through 

 Marston Cover, too, but just at the moment he 

 was wanted a fox came into it, and Tom 

 " holloaed " him (or another) away towards 

 Corton and back, and to Corton again, but there 

 was no scent, and, the earths being open in 

 Corton Gorse and in the Wheatsheaf Gorse, 



