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hounds found foxes, but the scent was so bad 

 they could do nothing with them, and it needs 

 a more intimate acquaintance with the geography 

 of those large woods than I possess, to be able 

 to describe in the smallest degree where they 

 went to. But "the cheery note of the hunter's 

 horn " was heard at various times by Stourton 

 Tower, in Stavordale Wood, in Brewham, 

 Blackslough, and Cockrow till near four 

 o'clock, when all faded in a fog. 



November 8th.— 



" It raineth, raineth, every day " will be 

 the motto for this week, so no more need be 

 said on the subject of the weather ; only it must 

 be borne in mind that the events about to be 

 narrated came off in waterproofs. The meet 

 was at West Hill Gate, and hounds soon found 

 in Honeycombe and ran their fox along the 

 wood to Thornford Firs and back again, and 

 then again in that direction, and around about 

 the wood till we drove him out into the open, 

 and killed, at the end of an hour and twenty- 

 three minutes. Ran through the Lewestou 



