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into Ranksborough ; but b}- that time — nearly 

 five o'clock — we could do no more. 



April 14th. — 



Having met at Nether Compton we drew 

 the Compton Home Cover in vain, but found 

 in Rocksley and ran down towards Trent Barrow 

 and along the stream towards Nether Compton ; 

 turning right he led us on to Compton Park 

 and away for Trent Covers, whence he was 

 somehow headed back, and then he ran hard, by 

 the side of the railwa}^ and finally up again 

 into Compton Wood ; and from here, with 

 failing scent, we followed him on towards 

 Chorlock Hill, ran somewhat of the same ring 

 again, and lost. A confusion of "holloas" 

 ensued ; Orbell took the pack to one, hoping 

 to regain his lost victim, and almost immediately 

 ran into and killed a fox, close to Trent Barrow. 

 Our friend of the morning probably made good 

 his escape, for, though hounds were run through 

 Rocksley and Compton a second time, the}' 

 never spoke to him again, Trent Covers, the 

 Gully, and Hack Hill were all blank, and we 



