i885. 133 



Lane, finally goni^g to ground under the road 

 near Mr. A' Barrow's farm ; but lie was soon 

 dislodged and eaten. 



November 7th. — 



A picturesque meet in front of tlie stately 

 old house of Montacute. A largish field of horse 

 and foot and carriages had assembled when the 

 Master and Lady Theodora arrived with the 

 hounds. A few minutes were allowed for 

 greeting and refreshments, and we then trotted 

 quietly into the cover on the hillside, where the 

 music of the Master's pack soon proclaimed a 

 find. In two minutes more the First Whip 

 waved his cap on the open ground above, and we 

 found ourselves racing to catch hounds, w^ho were 

 running a bob-brushed fox with a scent we have 

 not seen the like of all this week. Right on we 

 went into a steep cover, and here he went to 

 ground, or scent, in the carpet of leaves, failed. 

 While trying to account for him, hounds put up 

 another, and, after some pretty hunting, he was 

 run into and killed. The foot people took great 

 interest in his obsequies and the ceremonies 



