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more slowl}^ through Holtham again and Sterts, 

 to Church Copse, and at the end of an hour 

 and forty minutes he was marked to ground 

 in a vixen's earth on Farmer A'Barrow's land, 

 where we left him. 



April 1st. — 



Saw a large field assembled at Warrbridge 

 Gate. Representatives of five Hunts, Masters 

 past, present, and future — all were there! After 

 running through Jericho and Stalbridge Common 

 Plantation, a fox was found in Queen's Copse, 

 at Bagber, who made the best of his way to 

 Golden Gate Lane, and up it, and, turning left, 

 to Bagber Gorse ; past it, and on to Haydon, 

 over heavy country, with some pace. Turning 

 right-handed he crossed the Lydlinch Road and 

 the river, where the ford was deep, but the new 

 bridge handy; pointing for Hargrove, which he 

 passed, and, bearing away for the Somerset and 

 Dorset Railway, we lost him, close to Bagber 

 Bridge. After some fruitless casts we drew 

 Lydlinch Withybed, some of the Stock Covers, 

 and Woodbridge, but did not find again till we 



