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welcome to all comers ; a very handsome break- 

 fast was invitingly spread in the dining-room, 

 which was filled in re-lays by batches of hungry 

 sportsmen. The Master arrived rather late, to 

 give time, no doubt, for the joint disappearance 

 of frost and viands. The latter went first, for 

 the "bone" remained in the ground longer 

 than we liked. About twelve o'clock, however, 

 a move was made, and a fox quickly found, in 

 Hargrove Cover, who took us a turn, and in 

 a short ten minutes managed to squander 

 his pursuers all over the place, and to take 

 himself to ground in an interminable drain 

 opposite the Stalbridge Common Plantation. 

 One horse, Mr. Godwin's, was fatally staked, 

 and a man, Frederick Gould, rode home with 

 a broken collar bone, for the ground was 

 slippery in places and dreadfully hard. Another 

 fox left the " Obelisk " Cover and was soon 

 lost, but another from "The Wood" ran to 

 Hargrove, and, turning down, ran alongside the 

 river, crossed it, and came up over Lydlinch 

 Common, to Parsons' Cover, on to Brickell's, 

 hounds hunting him most musically through 



