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we could come to no terms with the one we 

 found. 



March loth. — 



A good company met at Purse Caundle, at 

 Mr, Huddlestone's picturesque Manor House. 

 We drew the small covers at the back of Ven, 

 but did not find till we got to Crendles, and 

 we ran our fox from there slowly past Purse 

 Caundle to Doles, and lost. Found another in 

 Woodhouse, who made for Plumley and along 

 the lower part, out over the open, straight to 

 the Holts, thence, after a little delay in the 

 cover, where two or three other foxes were 

 viewed, we ran rather prettily towards Caundle 

 Marsh, and hounds killed their fox in the middle 

 of the Brickfields, and ate him at the end of 

 thirty-two minutes. Our next find was in 

 Haydon Gorse, where our friend lost no time in 

 making for Sherborne Park, across it, and up 

 to North Wotton ; leaving it, we went on 

 merrily for Green Lane, where scent failed us, 

 and our fox went on and left us. Another 

 fox jumped up in a wheat field near Snagg's 



