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a turn and came back by way of Bristol Gorse 

 to Charlton Horethorne village ; but the very 

 close neighbourhood of the Kennels had no 

 attraction for him, and he turned away for the 

 Wheatsheaf, out by Ugly House and the Cleaves, 

 and once more to the Wheatsheaf Gorse, which 

 he left to meet his fate, hounds pulling him 

 down outside it in tlie open, after a run of a 

 little over an hour. We next had a pretty 

 find in Bristol Gorse, and a long slow run by 

 the Slaites, the Wheatsheaf, Corton Hill, to 

 Sigwells, and home again ; and here they nearly 

 had him, but he made his way on to Poyn- 

 tington, and was lost in the long shadows of a 

 sinking sun. 



March 3rd. — 



We met at Creech Hill; there was a long 

 and fruitless draw, Creech Hill, Milton, and 

 Pink Wood all proving blank ; finally we found 

 in Cogley, and ran towards Charlton Musgrove, 

 and, after a slow, cold run, or rather walk, ended 

 in a sharp burst and a kill. 



