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by road, and some by rail. Harputts, Ten Acres, 

 and the Church Spinney were alike blank, but 

 better luck awaited us in the Common Plantation, 

 whence a fine fox broke away and ran by 

 Thornhill and down to, and back along the 

 river, over Hargrove, towards the Common 

 Plantation again, where a fresh fox jumped up 

 before the hounds, who raced it down the road 

 for MarnhuU, turning right over railway and 

 river (the latter by a useful wooden bridge), 

 and, after a turn that way, he swung back for 

 King's Mill, then over the flat towards West 

 Mill, where the nature of the fences changed, 

 and a row of upright stones had to be negotiated 

 occasionally ; we then, with our fox in view, 

 crossed the river by a ford, and ran merrily 

 under Marnhull for King's Mill Withybed, 

 where we thought he would wait for us. Not 

 so, however, and on we went towards Thornhill 

 Obelisk, through the wood, to the river, and 

 almost the same wide circle again, thinking 

 every minute we should kill him ; and some of 

 the horses rather wished it, too, I fancy. The 

 line now got colder, and the pace slower, and 



