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away with a good head, up wind, but, being 

 headed, the fox soon turned down wind, which 

 answered his purpose. Common Plantation was 

 drawn and hounds then went home. A very 

 stormy, wild, windy day. 



November 4th. — 



Showed a great improvement both in the 

 glass and the weather. The former was rising, 

 and the latter had cleared. Still, the meet was 

 small, at Ha3^don Lodge, though the numbers 

 increased as the da}'^ wore on. A fox was found 

 in the fern, which is wonderfully high this year, 

 owing, no doubt, to the long and beautiful 

 Summer. We galloped about after him through 

 Goathill and across the Park, through Lover's 

 Grove and Honeycombe, down it and almost 

 to Thornford Village, when a " holloa " called 

 us up again, and we got on a fresh line, which 

 took us over the road and into Lillington Wood, 

 out of it, and we ran a ring below ; then back 

 into Leweston Park, where he laid down. A fresh 

 fox turned us back towards Honeycombe again, 

 but hounds could make nothing of it. Drew 



