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where, having had sufficient exercise for the 

 morning, our fox discreetly retired into a china 

 cupboard in Farmer Adams' kitchen, and we, 

 as discreetly, left her. We soon found another 

 in Marsh Copse, and ran rather nicely over 

 Portdown Hill, and, fording the brook near Pole 

 Bridge, we left Ryall Gorse on our left, and went 

 on to Major Warry's house and lost, heading for 

 Hoi well Plantations. We then trotted back to 

 Tripps Gorse, where he was at home, and went 

 away with a will ; and for the first fifteen minutes 

 up to Haydon Gorse, by way of Ashcombe and 

 the Caundle Marsh brickfields, it was all we 

 could do to keep hounds in sight at all. From 

 here he bore to his left to Haydon Vicarage 

 garden, on along the edge of the brook, and 

 then up the hill tow^ards the Holts, but turned 

 down instead of going into them, right-handed, 

 passing Marsh Court, and on for Marsh Copse, 

 where he turned sharp and short, and hounds 

 ran into and killed him handsomely — time 

 thirty-six minutes. This was a good finish to 

 our sport for the day, for, though we found and 

 ran another slowly from a little cover near the 



