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to Admiral Digby's plantation with a good 

 scent, and away to Bide's Gorse, where they 

 killed him. Hounds had been running all 

 day, and it would have been difficult to time 

 the run. 



December loth. — 



From Fifehead Neville we trotted straight 

 to Puxey, which did not respond to our call. 

 But luck was with us at Badbury, and Mr. 

 Connop was there to see a good fox go down to 

 the Vale through Haydon Gorse, heading for 

 Lydlinch Withybed ; here, turning left, he 

 bore along the river side up into Brickells, ran 

 round it and Stock Wood and Park, to Wood 

 Bridge Withybed, and on to Rodmore, broke on 

 the Pulham side, and ran a good ring by 

 Sixmead and into Brickells again, and on at a 

 good pace by Stock Wood and the back of 

 Hollow Hill, to Warrbridge (where the field 

 mostly crossed), while he went over the river 

 on the left as if for Stourton Caundle village, 

 almost to the little Brickfield Withybed, near 

 which Brown strained a muscle and had to hand 



