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November i8th. — 



Equally hard was it, and the hounds did 

 not move off till half-past twelve from Lattiford, 

 and then only walked after an outlying fox, who 

 must have reckoned himself pretty safe on such 

 slippery ground, and did not hurry himself, but 

 left us near Derigee. 



November 19th.— 



A kind of thaw followed, and the ground 

 was in fair order, and hunting was again "a joy 

 for ever." The hounds left Hunters' Lodge 

 about half-past eleven, and trotted on to Cockrow, 

 where a fox was soon on foot, and, after a turn 

 in cover, went out for Round Hill, and back into 

 Stavordale, thence into the big woods again, and 

 in and out of Cockrow and Pen Forest for some 

 time ; but he changed himself so often for 

 another, and especially when he was tiring, that 

 his reserves seemed inexhaustible, and he and 

 his devices were left there as the sun was setting, 



November 21st. — 



The morning broke foggily, and with a 



