28o 1886. 



Deptly Witliybed had nothing in them, though 

 Cucklington was better provided. We had a 

 sharp ten minntes from there, running in a 

 crescent shape towards Frith Wood, then had a 

 check, and, swinging back, having recovered 

 the line, we lost him near Horwood Farm, and 

 went home in such a cold air as betokened a 

 frost, and ought, one should have thought, to 

 have been preceded by a better scent. 



December i8th.— 



To-day was frosty, but there was not much 

 bone in the ground, though our horses' hind 

 legs gave occasional unpleasant slides in the 

 hard gateways. The Master had heard of a fox 

 who lived on Ivy Walls, in Henstridge village, 

 so we first drew these somewhat unusual covers, 

 and had not got far before our friend jumped 

 up in front of hounds and made the best of 

 his way over the Somerset and Dorset Railway, 

 skirting it nearly to Prior's Down. Here there 

 were two lines, but the Master, disregarding a 

 confusion of "holloas," cast back, and, after a 

 good bit of persevering work on the part of the 



