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through the little withybed above Holwell and 

 on to Holwell Gorse, where a fox was soon on 

 foot, and soon out, too. We ran through 

 Ponting's Gorse, over the river by the Mill, 

 by Charity Gorse, into Rooksmoor, out at the 

 Lydlinch end of it ; thence to the river under 

 Stock Covers, coasted it for a few fields, then 

 crossed it, and went through the spinnies and 

 Brickhill Cover, and bore left down the road 

 towards Lydlinch Rectory, then alongside the 

 road to Woodbridge ; here, bearing left again, 

 ran very nearly up to Holwell Church. A 

 sharp turn back took us nearly to Woodbridge 

 again, and he was marked to ground in a little 

 over an hour from the find. It was very pretty 

 hunting, and some of it fast, but the scent, 

 though fair, was not holding. Leaving Charley 

 to dig, we went back to Holwell Gorse and 

 found a fox, who pretty nearly copied the line 

 of his predecessor ; but the storms about had not 

 improved the scent, and the fox had it pretty 

 much his own way, as he led us from Ponting's 

 Gorse to the Mill, over the river by Charity 

 Gorse to Rooksmoor Drove and Cover, and out, 



