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a little further on we lost him, just across the 

 Sherborne and Yeovil road. Potter's Lease 

 was next drawn, and here a curious accident 

 happened. A young hound was working 

 busily on the railway, and took no heed of a 

 Great Western train which came up, and, 

 knocking him head over heels, cut his stern 

 clean off. It was wonderful the poor beast 

 escaped with his life. He was the prize puppy 

 of the year, "Contest" byname.* Fortj^-three 

 minutes of slow hunting followed in the 

 direction of Lenthay, near which he ran us 

 out of scent. 



November 3rd. — 



A very wet morning induced many to stay 

 at home, so the field was small and select that 

 met the Master and his pack at Fifehead 

 Magdalen Mill. A litter was soon disturbed 

 in Ashley Plantation, one of whom jdelded up 

 his brush at Moorside. In a hedgerow at 

 Marnhull another was roused, and was killed 

 in a turnip field hard by. The next find was 

 in King's Mill Withybed, whence hounds went 



•He hunted on for some two years more. 



