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attendant, and no wonder, for, if report speaks 

 true, no fox has been broken up at Montacute for 

 one and twenty years. Many can never have 

 seen the sight before, and I fancy there was a 

 general feeling that the enjoyment was due to 

 Mr. Phelip's good nature and care in preserving 

 foxes, for regret was frequently expressed that 

 he was not riding with us and sharing the 

 excitement of a musical chorus of hounds and 

 horn on a lovely day in a glorious woodland 

 country. St. Michael's Mound was drawn blank, 

 also Norton and Woodhouse. Days are shorten- 

 ing now, and it was a long way home, so, 

 having satisfactorily roused the unaccustomed 

 echoes on the hills of Montacute, the Master 

 made the best of his way home. 



November pth. — 



We met at Middlemarsh, and, finding almost 

 directly on the common, ran hard the length of 

 the wood, and after much perseverance and some 

 splendid hunting we were close at him in a 

 corner of the cover, and thought we should 

 get him ; but the fox, unluckily, possessed as 



