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Copse, and down Puxey Lane to Hay don and 

 up into Badbnry again. Here something 

 happened, probably a change of fox, for scent 

 improved, and we ran sharply down to Hay don 

 and on, pointing for Stock, swinging left, to 

 and through Rooksmoor, straight on to King's 

 Stag Withybed. Turned left there, and on by 

 Pulham Mill to Deadmore, where we lost him. 

 The last part was fifty- five minutes, the slow 

 prelude occupying over an hour and a-half. 



December 15th. — 



We met at Marston Magna. It was a 

 day when there was absolutely no scent, and 

 the over eagerness of a large field entirely 

 precluded any chance of sport. From Chilton 

 Cantelo we ran with a most touchy scent 

 towards Queen Camel and lost ; but getting 

 on the line of another they ran him towards 

 Speckington, but in vain. We were then taken 

 to Marston, where a fox was soon on foot, and 

 went away for Corton Gorse, where, after a little 

 delay, he broke on the Cadbury side, and took us 

 up Littleton Hill and back again to Corton 



