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prettily and fast to a fence close to Prior's 

 Down, where lie sought shelter, and whence a 

 terrier dislodged him, and honnds ate him. 

 Prior's Down was then drawn, and we ran over 

 the brook across that charming vale under 

 Stalbridge, over the Sherborne Road, turning 

 up left and almost to Yenston ; then, turning 

 below Henstridge village, ran back to Prior's 

 Down, in forty-seven minutes. He hung a bit 

 in cover, but the busybody pack made it too 

 hot to hold him, and out he went again, bearing 

 up to Stalbridge Park ; a long check, but they 

 recovered the line, and, hunting it beautifully 

 over a bit of plough, and then across the pasture, 

 they marked the line into the wood, forced him 

 out past the Dairy Farm to the wall ; along it, 

 inside, to Grove House, and down to a cottage 

 in the town, and to ground in a tub in an 

 outhouse. So hounds made short work of him, 

 after being at him, all told, for two hours and 

 twenty-five minutes. A very pretty day's sport. 



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We met at Marston, but did not have much 



