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got to the Holts, where we had a winding run, 

 finally working to Ashcombe, Tripps, and 

 Plumley, and lost, heading for Newlease. There 

 were a good many falls to-day ; both French 

 gentlemen and many English ones returning 

 home with an undue share of mud. 



April 2nd. — 



We went in quite another direction — to 

 Zeal's Green. We had drawn Bagmore and 

 Silton Wood blank, when a "holloa" re-called 

 us to Bagmore, and hounds raced a line thence 

 towards Silton, and to ground ; the Huntsman 

 meantime running over the same earth with 

 half the pack, and marked his fox also to 

 ground a little further on, in nineteen minutes. 

 The first fox was soon bolted, and, the divided 

 pack joining, they ran him hard towards 

 Hunter's Lodge, over Stoke Trister Hill, by 

 Newfoundland, where there was a check. A 

 " holloa " soon took us on, and we ran to ground 

 above Cucklington Wood. That earth was not 

 disturbed, and nothing more of interest was 

 done. Some heavy rain fell in the afternoon. 



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