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doubtful, and we went at once to Klscombe, 

 and were soon warming ourselves at a gallop 

 towards Holton, and parallel with the Wincanton 

 Road over the Yarlington earths, and into the 

 cover, where they checked ; soon, however, 

 hitting it off again, and going on at a fair 

 pace rather right-handed along the Yarlington 

 Hangings, up towards Dean's Bush, and then, 

 slowly, back to Elscombe, whence he went away 

 at the low end and into Holbrook ; from there, 

 after a little delay, a "holloa" took us on 

 to Waddon Down, awa}^ by Verrington for 

 Wincanton, which we left on our right, over 

 the railway, and up the hill for Bay ford. 

 Here we had a check, and, after a cast to 

 cover the Stoke Trister side, they hit the line 

 again by Charlton Musgrove stream, and, after 

 following him some way towards Hunter's 

 Lodge, we were obliged to give up and turn 

 homeward in a very frosty evening. 



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The frost was so sharp that hounds did 

 not throw off till past twelve o'clock. Then a 



