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had a very indifferent day. The foxes were 

 not at home in their nsual hannts, and we were 

 drawing a hedgerow when one jumped up and 

 ran for his life to an orchard not far off, where 

 he went to ground. He was soon dislodged, 

 and gave us another short gallop to a trip 

 under a farm gateway. Ejectment was the 

 order, and he did not give us another run. 



February ist. — 



The meet at Lydford produced nothing, 

 and, after a long draw through Babcary Thorns 

 and Hornblotton, and all the Alford and 

 Lovington Covers, we found one of our friends 

 at last in Sparkford Wood. This fox took a 

 somewhat unusual line by the Cadbury Laurels, 

 over the brook and along it, bearing onwards 

 between North Cadbury and Verigore, pointing 

 for Woolston, down to Yarlington, on to Clapton, 

 away to Maperton and over the earths, on to 

 Charlton and Cheriton Woods, and here, after 

 running an hour and a-half nearly, hounds were 

 stopped, by moonlight — luckily for them ver}- 

 near the kennels. 



