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Leweston Rooker}'-, LilHngton Wood, under 

 Leweston Wood, to Stockbridge, on to Six 

 Acres, when he turned left-handed, and went for 

 Holnest, where we had a check in the home 

 Plantations, but soon went out again, and on by 

 Holnest Church to Longburton Gorse, and over 

 the Common to Westhall ; thence by Folke to 

 Withytree Copse, and on for Buckshaw ; all this 

 at a fair holding pace, and much varied by loose 

 horses slipping about ; from Buckshaw we swung 

 left, and into Femey Down in an hour and forty 

 minutes from the find, having ridden over the 

 cream of the country with our hearts in our 

 mouths, though, indeed, they must have been in 

 the right place after all to go on at all. I am 

 told he was marked to ground near Femey 

 Down, and left there in the warm. 



January 9th. — 



A severe frost came on, which made it 

 impossible to hunt at Montacute. 



January nth. — 



The severe frost broke up, and the grass 



