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hounds enjoyed the worry with the appetite 

 afforded by a two hours' run. 



December 28th. — 



Hounds, horses, and foxes have been busy 

 this week. Monday found them all at Holnest 

 Pound, and our first fox took us away from 

 King's Plantation with a bad scent to Butter- 

 wick, and, after a turn there, on to Longburton 

 Gorse and Six Acres. He then ran a sharp ring 

 by Long Plantation to Ivongburton Gorse, and 

 slowly on to Six Acres again. Not making 

 much of this, they went next to Withy Tree 

 Copse, doing nothing there ; but soon recovered 

 the line of the hunted fox, and came up to him 

 in Broke, where he had sought shelter in a 

 rabbit earth — such a soft sandy one, though, 

 that the hounds dug him out themselves and 

 enjoyed him. Green Lane was next drawn, and 

 the small plantations at Leweston, and we found 

 in the larger Stockbridge Cover. Hounds fairly 

 raced him past Six Acres and Long Plantation, 

 and, heading for the hills, left Whitehouse Gorse 

 on their right, just touched Admiral Digby's 



