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going a considerable distance along the line 

 towards Bagber, meeting and stopping a train ; 

 and then, favoured by coming night, he made 

 good his escape. 



November 30th. — 



The great expectations at Mudford Bridge 

 rather collapsed when nothing was found in the 

 Hinton or Chilton Cantelo Covers ; but a long 

 trot to Puddimore Bushes resulted in our finding 

 a brace, one of which broke on the Yeovilton 

 side, and away went hounds and field after 

 him, over the brooks, heading for Chilton 

 Cantelo Covers, and pointing for the Rimpton 

 Hills, across the Great Western Railway, whence, 

 turning left, we ran on almost to Marston Park 

 Farm. When near here, at a check, there was a 

 "holloa" by the railway; hounds were quickly 

 clapped on, and they ran him to ground at the 

 end of about an hour and a-half. Marston 

 Cover was drawn blank, the tenant having no 

 doubt accepted the sound of the horn in his 

 immediate neighbourhood as a notice to quit, 

 and so hounds went home. 



