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1886. 



North Wootton and Snagg's Harbour, and just 

 as we left the latter a fox jumped up in the 

 fields outside the Park wall, and gave us a very 

 pretty and fast thirty-four minutes, which very 

 few people saw ; and up to the Holts only five 

 w^ere anywhere near the hounds. A slight check 

 here let the field get up. Recovering the line 

 hounds marked him away at the top, and, run- 

 ning well, we left Caundle Brake on the right, 

 bore suddenly left behind Bishop's Caundle, 

 and, running sharp for Woodrow, marked him 

 to ground in an earth insufiiciently stopped on 

 that farm. It was a very pretty gallop, and, 

 though the fences are still terribly blind, the 

 ground rides so perfectly as to make one forget 

 the Winter trials of Dorsetshire mud that are 

 before us. This finished the day, it being four 

 o'clock or more. 



November 5th. — 



The weather seems to alternate with fair 

 regularity, and yesterday's balmy calmness was 

 compensated for to-da}^ by soaking rain. 

 Yarlington House was the meet, and that good 



