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may make it warmer, as the cold all this week 

 has been severe. 



March ist. — 



Snow prevented any question of hunting, 

 but on 



March 2nd. — 



Hounds duly arrived at Mudford Bridge, 

 and were soon thrown into Ashington Wood. 

 That cover, however, together with Limington 

 Warren, Stone Farm, and Brimsmore Tree, were 

 all drawn blank. They had not been long in 

 Vagg before a whimper gave us hopes, but 

 they were not realised, for though there was 

 a fox, and though we went away after him, 

 scent was so hopelessl}^ bad we could not make 

 a real run of it, though we followed him nearly 

 to Thorn Cofiin; but a wide cast, even towards 

 Odcombe and Montacute, failed to mend matters. 

 Nor did we find again. 



March 4th. — 



We met at Holnest Pound, and it was very 



