I30 1885. 



if a thing can be said to be bad when it is 

 not there ! 



November 3rd. — 



We met at Nether Compton in unmitigated 

 rain. We found a fox in Major Goodden's cover, 

 and ran sharply to Rocksley, and through the 

 allotments back in the direction of where he 

 sprang from, after which we saw no more of 

 him; but, finding a bob-brushed relative of his 

 in the withybed near the railway, we ran to 

 Potters Lease, where he went to ground. We 

 did not find again, though hounds were run 

 through Trent Barrow and the Gully, but who 

 could expect a fox to be about on such a day ? 



November 4th. — 



To-day the point was Stourton Inn, for the 

 big woods ; the Master carrying the horn 

 himself, which I understood he has been doing 

 twice a week since cub hunting began, which 

 event took place on August 31st, so that 

 hunting, which to us appears to have just begun, 

 can be no novelty to him. But to return to this 



