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Poddimore bushes, of which he touched the 

 edge only ; and away again went our gallant 

 fox on his former line, heading for Ilchester, 

 and here, in the parson's garden at Northover, 

 we had our first check at the end of thirty 

 minutes. A black dog had interfered and 

 coursed him, which threw our good hounds out, 

 but they soon regained the line, and hunted 

 him, more slowly, towards Kingsdon, where, 

 picking the line up out of a road, they got on 

 better terms with him again, and ran hard up 

 to a farm house in Long Sutton ; and here we 

 lost him, for, in spite of patient casts, and a 

 shepherd who had seen him, we never recovered 

 him, and a scattered field reassembled to narrate 

 their many adventures by flood and field — some 

 without hats, some without horses, some wet 

 through from too close contact with a certain 

 wide brook that had soused the huntsman, and 

 a few more ; but all delighted and pleased, 

 and all, especially the horses, quite satisfied. 

 An hour and nine minutes, over a really fine 

 flying country, with hardly two bits of plough 

 in the length and breadth of it, was something 



