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with very indifferent scent, through Lockett's, 

 and into Woolland Copse, heading for the 

 hills, where we lost, after running about three- 

 quarters of an hour. Our next fox we found 

 in Humber Wood, and followed him out to 

 Shortwood and through the Brockhampton 

 Covers, and up to Canning's Court Vicarage, 

 where we bore right and made a slow line 

 back to Humber Wood, and through it, heading 

 for Mappowder, but swung here rather to the 

 right, and lost ; for he had run us out of scent, 

 and hounds could not re-gain the line. We 

 did no more, except running hounds through 

 Pouting' s Gorse at the end of the day. 



April 6th.— 



We were in quite another country, up at 

 Pylle Station, in Somerset. We found a fox 

 in Bowling's Cover over the railway, ran him 

 to the Pennard Covers as if for Cockhill, back 

 towards Mr. Carey's, and to ground ; but he 

 was soon dug and eaten. The Ditcheat 

 Covers and Hornblotton Wood were drawn 



