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April 3«*d-— 



This week's sport ended with a long day 

 in the Middlemarsh Woods, which were heavy 

 and deep, and the four hours of work in them 

 must have been tiring to hounds. The field 

 were not called upon to do much till the after- 

 noon, when a fox at last left the shelter of the 

 woods and ran, rather well, through Urley 

 Moor, over Middlemarsh Road, past Bight 

 Acres and Broad Alders, up over the Dongeon, 

 and went to ground just short of Pulham 

 Lake, at four o'clock. Being within the borders 

 of the Cattistock Hunt the Master would not 

 dig, but took the tired pack home without 

 their well-earned morsel. The day was fine 

 and bright, and the changing colour of the 

 grass warns us that the season is getting on. 



April 5th. — 



The meet was at Fifehead Neville, and, 

 Cockrow and Badbury having been drawn, a 

 "holloa" was heard under Deadmore Copse; and, 

 the pack being laid on, ran up the hill, 

 passing Cockrow to Reek's Cover, and on, 



