346 i887. 



December 12th. — 



We met at Mars ton. After drawing 

 Chilton Cantelo and Hinton, we moved on to 

 Waindles, where a fox was at home, and had 

 no wish to leave ; eventually hounds forced him 

 out, and we followed them slowly to Ashington 

 Wood, where he took a turn, then broke on 

 the Mudford side, and ran sharply to Waindles 

 again, thence out over the Yeovil Road to the 

 Great Lyde Gully, which he crossed, heading, 

 with a fair scent, for Pen Mill Station. Here 

 he turned sharply to his left, and crossed the 

 River Yeo and the railway, and we hunted him 

 slowly down to Trent Mill and, still more slowly, 

 into the Nether Compton woods, where, after a 

 short turn round, we lost him. 



December 13th. — 



We met at West Hill Cross Roads, long 

 called West Hill Gate, in memory of the 

 departed turnpike. We found in Honeycombe, 

 and ran along the hill and lost in Thornford 

 Firs. Drew back through Honeycombe and 

 into Sherborne Park ; found our fox on the 



