I02 1885. 



March 26th. — 



A large field, as usual, met at the Five 

 Bridges. Instead of beginning with the home 

 covers we were taken straight to Ashley, and 

 were rewarded by an immediate find, a quick 

 scurry, and a short shrift, for the fox was 

 despatched in the quarry hard by. Back we 

 came to Fifehead ; found one in the lower cover, 

 but soon lost him. Then we found another in 

 the withj^bed, by Mr. Sandford's Farm, who led 

 us a pretty line to and through the upper covers, 

 by Trill Lane, over the River Stour, to Ashley 

 Withybed, and sharpl}^ into the Cottage Gardens 

 at Marnhull ; here we had a long check, and 

 recovering a cold line, ran him slowly near 

 Lloyd's Farm, over the river again to Sayell's 

 Farm, and lost him. Our next find was in Lady 

 Theodora's Gorse, and this fox took us a real 

 race by Upper Nyland and down to Lower 

 Nyland, and straight as a line to the Parsonage, 

 at Kington Magna, in fifteen minutes. Good 

 going ! Then, with a good cry, we followed to 

 the Tunnel Head, near Buckhorn Weston, when, 

 just as hounds were crossing the line, a train 



