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was again in a fairly rideable condition. There 

 was a good deal of bone in the gronnd, 

 however, so it was qnite twelve o'clock 

 before honnds were thrown into Pnlhani Gorse, 

 which they made ninsical with their melody 

 for some little time, finall}^ killing a fox in the 

 corner of Holwell Gorse. After this Holwell 

 Plantations were drawn blank, bnt we soon got 

 on the drag of a fox in a thick gorsey field by 

 Pulham Lake, and at the lower end honnds ran 

 into and killed him. From here we trotted back 

 to Ranksborongh Gorse, fonnd, and ran ont 

 towards Pulham Gorse, but he quickly re-crossed 

 the road, and went fast and straight over a 

 prett}' line for Mappowder, in thirteen minutes ; 

 here he made a sharp turn to the right ; hounds 

 came to a check, and never got on good terms 

 with him again, though the}^ marked a cold 

 line back towards Shortwood, where we left him, 

 no doubt. 



January 12th. — 



We awoke to a sharp frost ; and, seeing 



