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slow limiting nearly to Writli and Stoke 

 Trister, winding left-handed, over Horwood 

 Drove, pointing for Grove Withybed, and there 

 hounds got on better terms with hiin, and ran 

 hard up wind to the River Cale, where it is 

 crossed by the Cheriton and Rodgrove Road ; 

 here, however, he got the best of it, for scent 

 failed, and we were forced to give up after a 

 very pretty run of sixty-five minutes. 



November 23rd. — 



There was a largish field at Sparkford 

 Inn, and a long trot took us to Babcary 

 Thorns, which, to everybody's disappointment, 

 was drawn blank, as was also a small cover 

 near it ; and also Yarcombe. This bad luck, 

 however, did not pursue us further, for there 

 were a brace in Sparkford Wood, one of whom 

 took a line over the railway, and, hounds 

 leaving the other in the cover rather reluctantly, 

 this one got a good start, and we could only 

 follow him slowly in the direction of Alford to 

 seize him by the Brickfields in North Barrow. 

 We then enquired after an old friend in Mr. 



