i66 1885. 



Another was soon found in Deadmore, whom 

 we followed slowly up the hill, and back again 

 to Rooksmore, and he worked slowly about 

 there some time till we went on through Charity 

 Gorse to Hyde's Withybed, and on to, and 

 about Stock, where the shade of eve closed 

 round us, and we did no more. 



December 30th. — 



Was a very distant meet — Kingweston — and 

 hounds were taken there by train. The frost 

 was so sharp that the Master was in no hurry 

 to throw off, and it was past twelve before he 

 found in Mr. Dickinson's large wood ; but there 

 was not much scent, and, after a fairly long 

 woodland ring with one turn in the open, he 

 took his hounds on to Sir A. Hood's cover at 

 Butleigh, where, scent improving, they ran very 

 nicely over the hilly grounds and back into the 

 big woods ; running the length of them towards 

 the Somerton end for full forty minutes. Here 

 they lost him, and I believe had to do all 

 they knew to catch their train back from 

 Glastonbury. 



