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ten minutes, hounds pulling their cub down 

 brilliantly in the open a little beyond Hargrove 

 Farm. General Parke, who never fails to 

 provide sport for his friends, and rejoices in it, 

 was there to see. We then went to Holtham, 

 calling at Jericho, whence a line took us to the 

 former cover, which we subsequently left on the 

 far side, and, going through Sterts and the 

 Withybed, we got to the back of Stourton 

 Caundle ; thence, rather slowly, to the Holts, 

 by Knoll Plantation, and Rowditches, finally 

 losing him there. On our way from there to 

 Stalbridge, hounds suddenly picked up a line 

 near Church Copse, and ran it merrily for a few 

 hundred yards, but could make nothing more of 

 it. We could onl}'' suppose it was the line of 

 some wanderer we had disturbed in the morning, 

 perhaps from Holtham. The scent, so good in 

 the early part of the da}^, was gradually getting 

 worse and worse, and, although a fox was seen 

 crossing a ride in Stalbridge Park Wood, the 

 hounds could not own it. Nor could they 

 do more in the rest of the coppices in the 

 Park ; so the Master wisely decided to disturb 



