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and had a slow wandering kind of run towards 

 Wincanton and Hatherleigh, and back over the 

 railway and to gronnd near Lattiford. Having 

 dng and eaten him, we fonnd another, and 

 soon killed him near Hatherleigh ; and, thongh 

 another of the family offered to show ns 

 some more sport, he effected nothing worth 

 recording. 



December pth. — 



Found ns at Chetnole, but no fox. A long 

 vain draw all the morning. Later on we ran one 

 from Bailey Ridge b}^ Totnel Corner, and then 

 away for Gordon's Gorse, by Home Bushes, and 

 to Ash Tree Common, and on to Holnest 

 Spinnies ; turning right into Admiral Digby's 

 plantation, and on between Sweethill and 

 Castles, over the road below Totnel, pointing for 

 Yetminster. Here we bore back right-handed, 

 and swung up to the orchard at Totnel House, 

 where he went to ground, after about an hour's 

 exercise, in a big old hedge, late in the 

 afternoon. 



