1885. i6i 



December 19th. — 



Found a small field at Tripp's Limekiln, 

 and we were sorry to see the First Whip not 

 yet out, he having been in bed with a violent 

 chill since Thursday. We found in Plumley, 

 but were too far behind our fox, and ran slowly 

 by Goathill to Ven, some hounds crossing the 

 water very prettily by running up a sloping 

 willow tree and jumping from it to the opposite 

 shore; however, this fox we finally lost in Crack- 

 more. Drew Combe Hill blank, and trotted back 

 to Biddlescombe, where we chopped a fox ; then 

 ran another very hard by Stourton Caundle up to 

 Bishop's Caundle Brake, there turned left and 

 raced away back to Newlease, and here hounds 

 divided, and deluded some who were left behind 

 — for hounds had slipped away, and no mistake 

 — into a wild hope that the hounds that came 

 back to Biddlescombe were right. It was not so, 

 however, and on went the leading hounds past 

 Haddon Lodge, and a little to the right to a 

 small cover under Frith, in thirty minutes. Here 

 was a check, but they took a line out, and on 

 more slowly through Plumle}' to Woodhouse, 



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