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doubtful whether it would be safe to ride. The 

 Master did not arrive till past twelve, and the 

 ground was so hard and slippery that after 

 waiting another half-hour or so he decided to 

 do a little cub hunting and no more. But the 

 cubs having grown into foxes did not see the 

 fun of this, and the one we found in Withy 

 Tree Copse declined to join in our game, and 

 went away in the direction of Buckshaw. 

 Ferney Down and Marsh Copse were blank, 

 and hounds went home by three o'clock. A 

 fresh fall of snow that night, which continued 

 through Friday, kept us all at home both that 

 day and Saturday also, and for nearly a 

 fortnight more. 



March 19th. — 



The frost having at last broken up, the 

 hounds met at Bagber. There was a very small 

 field, as the morning was very wet, and we 

 had a long trot over Cutmill Bridge to Ashley 

 Plantation, at Todber. Two foxes soon broke 

 cover on the Fifehead side, and we followed 

 one rather merrily into Marnhull village. There 



