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our hopes not being raised, could not be dis- 

 appointed. We found a fox in Twin Wood, 

 and hunted him slowly past Yeargrove to 

 King's Mill, and lost. Then drew King's Mill 

 Withybed blank, but had better luck at Year- 

 grove, carrying a bad line back to Twin 

 Wood, thence between it and the river, and 

 backwards and forwards once more. Spar Copse 

 was blank, but we found in Ashley Plantation ; 

 hounds being apparently close at him, for they 

 ran hard to Moorside, and there, mysteriously, 

 lost. 



November 20th. — 



We met at Shanks House, and Mr. Grant 

 Dalton's picturesque residence was enlivened at 

 eleven o'clock b}^ a group of hounds, and horses, 

 and carriages. The former soon moved on 

 to Cucklington Wood, where they found, and 

 ran up over the hill and to ground, whence we 

 dug and killed a very old fox. Stoke Trister 

 hangings proved blank, but we were better off 

 in Frith ; from this cover we described a 

 double circle Stoke Trister way, finally running 



