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anything of it, they were glad to share their 

 comrades' supper. 



February 2nd. — 



At the Cross Keys, at L3^dford, a large field 

 were assembled ; but the day was disappointing 

 owing to all the Lydford Covers being drawn 

 blank, and most of those at Alford also. So 

 the morning was tedious, and it was not till 

 past two o'clock that "gone away" was heard, 

 and a fox broke from the cover in front 

 of Mr. Thring's house, and took us a fairish 

 gallop of eleven minutes to the railway, where 

 a check occurred, and we presently marked him 

 to ground in a big earth, whence we tried in 

 vain to bolt him. Another was found in Spark- 

 ford Wood, and we ran sharply by Hazelgrove 

 Park to the Spinnies in thirteen minutes; here 

 a short check ensued, but we recovered the 

 line in the Park, and ran on by a small cover 

 and back to Hazelgrove Rectory and Sparkford 

 Wood, and lost him below the hill this side of 

 Wearyall ; and so home. 



