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Another fox was chopped in the same cover, and 

 the hounds having thus been rewarded, and 

 every one being wet through, the word was given 

 and home we trotted. The wind was variable 

 and uncertain, but there was no doubt about the 

 rain. 



November 27th. — 



A rather finer, though grim looking, morn- 

 ing found us at Stockbridge Oak. A large field 

 were out. Stockbridge Covers and Six Acres 

 were tenantless, but the hounds soon spoke to 

 their fox in Long Plantation, whence they 

 took him out with a good head ; he very soon 

 succumbed, and was killed in a ditch close by. 

 After drawing Bailey Ridge we went down to 

 Whitfield, and just then it was that a sad 

 accident happened to the Rev. M. Woodman, 

 of Glanvilles Wootton. He was galloping past 

 some horses when one of them, ridden by a 

 a second horseman, struck out at him, and 

 unluckily caught his leg, fracturing it badly 

 below the knee. Every one lamented it most 

 sincerely, but it was not till Saturday that it was 



