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good hunting. To-day we noticed the first 

 swallows. 



April i8th.— 



Seemed really like a Summer's day — 

 cloudless sunshine and hardly any wind — so 

 we had a pleasant trot to Totnel Corner. Two 

 or three covers at Chetnole having been 

 drawn, we found a good fox in Fifett's Gorse, 

 near Totnel, and, running for Sweethills, 

 bore left to Home Bushes and Bailey Ridge, 

 and then ran really well to Whitfield, where 

 our first check took place at the end of seven- 

 teen minutes. But the clever little ladies 

 soon recovered the line and carried it out 

 through Knighton Gorse, and up the hill to 

 Leweston Wood, where they hung for a 

 minute or two, but not more ; and we were 

 soon out on the Stockbridge side and through 

 the Belt, on through Six Acres and by Gravel 

 Pits, very fast, to Sweethill Gorse again. But 

 on went fox and hounds and leading horses 

 through the gorse, and, bearing back, left 

 Admiral Digby's Plantation on the right, and 



