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1886. 



enjoy ; including some strangers, though the 

 late Master, rarely as we now see him, can 

 hardly come under that heading. We found 

 directly in Hollow Hill on Lydlinch Common, 

 ran away well by Ricketts and over the river 

 for Holtham, took a turn round Sterts, where 

 a "holloa" for Stalbridge Weston misled us, 

 but the pack soon turned into Holtham, hit 

 the line, carried it through Thornhill Cover, 

 over the river and the Sturminster Road, to 

 Lydlinch Withybed, crossed the river again by 

 a ford, and on into Deadmore Common, where 

 they hunted the line beautifully through the 

 gorse, out, over a charming country, and 

 through another brook, at a good holding pace, 

 across the road to Green Man, Pulham, out of 

 it, and on into the New Gorse, where, at the 

 end of an hour and thirty minutes, hounds 

 pulled down the fox they had found in Hollow 

 Hill. The brush was presented to Miss Hood, 

 who had been well carried over all the big 

 fences of this heavy country close to hounds 

 by a very clever pony. From Lodmore, our 

 next draw, a good fox took us to New Gorse, 



