1885 I07 



from the find. Mr. and Mrs. Digby Collins 

 were out. 



March 31st. — 



A beautiful morning found a goodly 

 assemblage at Mr. Connop's hospitable door, 

 at Fifehead Neville, whence, after a little law, 

 we moved on to Cockrow, and soon disturbed a 

 fox, who, not wishing to see more of us, set off 

 at once, best pace, in the opposite direction, and 

 we after him, for Kitford, through Woolland 

 Cover, heading for the hills, which we reached 

 in fifteen minutes ; then on through Stoke 

 Wake, over Bulbarrow, and Rawlesbury, to one 

 of the covers outside Melcombe Park, in fort}^- 

 seven minutes ; here he doubled back into the 

 wood and was lost — a pretty gallop, which 

 involved man}^ falls, no injuries, and much 

 pleasure. Returning through Mappowder we 

 had rather a long trot back to Badbury, whose 

 only tenant was a large cat, and to Deadmore, 

 where we found our next fox, who ran rather 

 well past Cockrow, and on to Hazelbury 

 Common, where he left us. Back to Deadmore, 



