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rather slower, we went over a stiff gully country 

 close to Coker Wood, and bore up to Pen. Here 

 we probably changed, for a colder scent led us 

 further into the Cattistock countrj^, and at the 

 end of two hours and forty minutes the Master 

 gave the word for home, and a long way off that 

 was, for some of us. 



November 13th. — 



The meet had been fixed for Warrbridge, 

 but owing to illness in the dog pack the hounds 

 did not hunt. 



November 14th. — 



A small and select party met at Hunter's 

 Lodge ; even the Master was absent owing 

 to a cold. Lady Theodora, therefore, was in 

 command. Hounds were taken straight to 

 Charlton Musgrove, and found a brace of foxes 

 in the cover opposite the house ; they settled 

 down on one, and ran him very fast up the hill, 

 and then, left-handed as fast as they could race, 

 to Pen Forest, through the woods up to the 

 main earths, down again and round the wood till 



