304 1887. 



Copse, and Pile Lane ; back by Haddon and 

 Stourton Caundle, to Holtliam Withybed, where 

 a single hound held the line on. All this was 

 very slow and marvellous hunting, for there was 

 next to no scent, and the way hounds worked 

 perseveringly on, was wonderful. We got up 

 to our fox on Mr. A' Barrow's Farm, for he 

 jumped up in view, heading for Stalbridge, 

 where he tried every garden and pigstye, and 

 was at last last killed in a passage of a 

 cottage, after dodging us for very nearly three 

 hours. 



February 17th. — 



We had a very bad day from Buckhorn 

 Weston. There were few foxes and much frost. 

 But a thaw followed. 



February i8th. — 



We could get about fairly well in the 

 Middlemarsh Woods, to which we trotted 

 straight from Holnest Pound. We found on 

 the Common and ran to Holnest Park, where 

 our fox went to ground, but was dug out and 



