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line again, running him down towards the river, 

 then back to the cover ; from it to Marsh 

 Copse, on over Port Down Hill to Ryall Gorse, 

 past Hoi well Church to Bulhams, thence leaving 

 Sovell's Pit on the left, and Rodmore on his 

 right, he bore on to Hyde's Withybed, Sixmead, 

 and Brickhills into Stockwood, back over the 

 Park through Brickhills again, and away for 

 Lydlinch ; and here hounds were, with great 

 difiiculty, stopped, as they were then running 

 really hard, but the decline of a winter's day 

 left no alternative, and they had been running 

 for two and a-half hours, more or less. 



December 18th. — 



At Haydon Lodge there was not so much 

 to tell of, for though there were foxes about 

 they declined to afford any sport. One wandered 

 away from the old ruins in the Park to White 

 Post Gate, and we wandered after him for some 

 way. The rest of the day we spent in the 

 Park, Snaggs Harboiir, and so on, finally getting 

 as far as Hanover, and from there to our various 

 homes. 



