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little time, till the fox jumped into a small pond 

 in the middle of the pack, who nearly got him 

 then and there, but he gave us another three 

 minutes as hard as he could go ; he could not 

 save his brush, however, hounds killing him in 

 a tuft of gorse, at the edge of the ditch, on 

 Bowden Hill side ; so we finished with blood, 

 and went home in a cold frosty evening. 

 Mr. J. Daniel got a fall, but, happil}^, did not 

 sustain serious injury. Mr. Harold Paget was 

 out, just returned from the Soudan. 



January 15th. — 



Found us at the White Post Gate, near 

 Poyntington, and, the frost having come to 

 nothing, hounds were taken to draw Rimpton, 

 which, with Marston Park, Trent Gully, Trent 

 Barrow, Charlock Hill, and Holdway Gorses, 

 all proved blank. After this long draw it was 

 cheering to hear a whimper in the Wheatsheaf, 

 which soon broke into a chorus as hounds burst 

 out of the Gorse, and ran hard over the ploughs 

 by Ugly House and to Charlton Horethorne, 

 in thirteen minutes ; here ensued a short check, 



