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November 14th. — 



Having only lately done with Summer, 

 Winter has set in unusually early, and we have 

 had a fair foretaste of it this week. In spite of 

 it the Blackmore Vale Hounds have been out 

 every day without giving me much to record. 

 The ground has been hard and the scent 

 middling, as they found when they met at 

 Fifehead Magdalen, and, having killed two 

 foxes in the morning — a Fifehead one at 

 Ashley's, and an Ashley one at Marnhull — 

 there was not scent enough to kill the after- 

 noon one, who led us over rather a prett\^ 

 line from Marnhull towards Stalbridge Station, 

 thence alongside the railway towards Landshire 

 Lane, where, at the bridge, they almost had 

 him, but he got away, and, passing Gibbs' 

 Marsh, went to ground on Moore's Farm, where 

 we left him. 



November 15th. — 



There was a largish field at Sparkford. 

 We found in Annis Hills, ran towards the 

 Camel Hill Monument, and headed back, and to 



