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select few who had the luck to get away with 

 hounds and the pluck to be able to stay with 

 them aftenvards ; and the latter part displaying 

 considerable scientific hunting on the part of 

 hounds and huntsmen. A reduced field — some 

 without second horses, having cried " Hold, 

 enough ! " — followed the Master back to Thorn- 

 ford Hill to draw Ridge Barn, where we found, 

 and went away over the Knighton Gorse into 

 and through Whitfield, pointing for Clifton 

 Wood, but he swung left, and, describing a 

 semi-circle, returned to Whitfield, to Tipples, 

 and again, slowly, to Whitfield, where the Hunts- 

 man's horn had roused the echoes pretty 

 frequently to-day. But this fox was not for 

 us, so we gave it up towards five o'clock. We 

 had several strangers out to-da}^ including 

 Lord Guildford and Lord Onslow. 



March 24th. — 



We met at Sparkford Inn. A fine morning 

 and no dust, though we had a longish trot 

 along a high road to our first draw, Wearyall, 

 where we soon found a fox, who went out at 



