294 1887. 



February 2nd. — 



A very bad, scentless, windy day left 

 nothing to record of the Stourton Woods, 

 though a fox was run to ground near the 

 source of the Stour. 



February 3rd. — 



Clifton Wood was a melancholy blank, but 

 while hounds were drawing Lenthay Moor 

 Charley "holloaed" a fox in a water meadow, 

 who jumped up in view and ran over the water 

 towards Honeycombe, by West Hill Gate, 

 Lovers' Grove, and Sherborne Park ; through 

 Goat Hill, and, after a turn round there, he 

 paid the debt of Nature in Hanover, after 

 leading us a chase of something over an hour's 

 duration, at a fair pace throughout. 



February 4th. — 



Found a good iield at Fifehead Neville, 

 and we found a good fox in Haydon Gorse ; 

 ran him to Badbury and through Puxey (where 

 a hound got wantonly ridden over) down over 

 the heaviest of heavy meadows, with rather 



