298 1887. 



to do, for our only fox went from Podimore 

 by a rather circling line to Annis Hills in 

 twenty - three minutes, and, though hounds 

 marked a feeble line thence by Babcary and 

 Charlton Adam, back towards Podimore, they 

 could make nothing of it ; and we did not find 

 again all day, Annis Hills and all the Queen 

 Camel neighbourhood proving blank. 



February 9th. — 



A very cold morning greeted us at Ven, 

 and hunting seemed very doubtful. The Master, 

 however, decided to try round the neighbour- 

 hood, and hounds ran a fox from the end of 

 Bast Hill through Ridge, and then wandered 

 after him, or another, towards Poyntington, 

 and Wheatsheaf, and Clatcombe, eventually 

 killing one at the back of Poyntington village ; 

 but jumping was impossible, and riding a service 

 of danger, which not many attempted. 



February loth. — 



Nor did many try it at Jack White's Gibbet, 

 where the Master indulged in a little cub 



