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whence we trotted straight to Yarliugton, where 

 we found a fox who gave us a short turn, with 

 an indifferent scent, which died away to nothing 

 on the fallows. Did better from Blscombe, 

 whence we ran prettily to Dean's Copse, out for 

 Whaddon Down, which we left on our left, 

 running well alongside the gully down to Leek's 

 Hill, out of it, and along the railway up into 

 Underwood in Shepton Montague, where some 

 got a view at him ; from here he ran back towards 

 Bratton Gully, and up it, closely pressed by one 

 of the active lady hounds, who nearly got him, 

 and forced him just over the road up Bratton 

 Hill, where she and the rest of the pack got 

 hold of and soon despatched him, after a very 

 pretty gallop of forty minutes. And just in 

 time, for it began to rain directly after, and if it 

 had begun sooner the end of this tale, and of the 

 fox's brush, might have been different. 



April 30th. — 



Found one in Clifton Wood Cover, who was 

 killed in the open after a deal of hunting in the 

 cover. Thence to Ridgestall, which was blank ; 



