I20 1885. 



four fields on from here hounds ran handsomely 

 into their fox, killing him in the open, after a 

 really pleasant gallop over a good bit of country, 

 of about an hour and twenty minutes. Nearly 

 all of us, horses included, had had enough, and 

 but few followed the Master as he went to draw 

 Whitfield, from whence he had a short run ; but 

 the burning scent of the morning did not serve 

 him in the evening. 



April 20th.— 



We had not much sport from the Red 

 Lion, Cheriton. There was absolutely no 

 scent, and, though hounds raced for a few 

 minutes in the afternoon, when running from 

 Maperton Wood to near Charlton Wood, they 

 threw up directly they got there, and the rest 

 of the day was not worth recording. 



April 2ist. — 



We were at Ven, and sad it is to see that 

 once hospitable house still closed. We found our 

 fox in Hanover, and ran him out to Plumley and 

 by the edge of Tripp's Gorse back to Hanover, 



