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enough, for he got up before hounds could 

 touch him, and he was viewed, dead beat, 

 before them, in Waddon Down, but he managed 

 to crawl into a hedgerow and get to ground in 

 an earth, almost under their eyes, after standing 

 up for two hours and twenty-five minutes. 

 This was timed from what was apparently our 

 second find in the Gorse by Tennants' Wood. 

 Had the scent been just a little better hounds 

 would certainly have been rewarded for their 

 patient hunting ; but thoiigh they could hold 

 it, and speak to it, on the grass, yet on every 

 fallow up went their heads, and much precious 

 time was necessarily lost. 



March 21st. — 



To-day found a large field at Warrbridge ; 

 a great many ladies out. The hounds were 

 put into the Woodbridge Withybed, where, to 

 make sure of something, they at once chopped 

 a fox on their own account. To gratify us, 

 they then ran another from the same cover to 

 Stock Garden, and then, rather prettily, by 

 Sovell's Pit, past Rodmoor, to New Gorse, 



