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he retired for a time, but soon yielded to 

 pressure and came out, running two fields 

 more in the direction of Gale's Plantation ; but 

 hounds were too many for him, and killed him 

 in the open, and never did I see a pack more 

 greedy for their prey. There was not much 

 more sport, though we found one fox in the 

 Templecombe Woods, after drawing Cheriton 

 Wood, Charlton Wood, and Stowell Plantation 

 all blank. We made a weak line after this 

 one towards Horsington, but he was too far 

 in front of us ; and though we touched the 

 line again, heading back for the cover, the 

 scent was gone, and the word was given for 

 home. 



April 19th. — 



We had what may be called a prelimin- 

 ary canter in the morning, in the form of a 

 very fast thirty-eight minutes from Short 

 Wood, past the Nag's Head, up to Melcombe 

 Park, and over the hill to Liscombe, where 

 we lost. The going in the Vale was very 

 heavy, in consequence of the rain on the 



