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Hunts, as well as our own, were strongly 

 represented. Nor did the General's care for 

 us cease there, for, after running through the 

 Rooker}^ and wood, a fox flung himself at the 

 hounds' heads as we were going on to the 

 next covert, and gave us a rattling chase, in 

 view, for a few minutes b}^ Cuckoo Pound, 

 heading for Mount Pleasant ; he then availed 

 himself of the opportunity^ and left us some- 

 what behind him as he went on by Jericho 

 for Warrbridge, where he left us altogether. 

 We chopped, unluckil}^ one of his relations 

 in Stalbridge Common Plantation ; and had an 

 afternoon run from Bagber Gorse, over the 

 Green Drove, round b}/ the Schools towards 

 Bagber Cross Roads, by Queen Copse, over 

 the stream, as if for Sturminster, back again, 

 and lost. 



December 23rd. ^ — 



A very cold day, followed b}^ a sharp frost 

 at night, which made the meet at Compton 

 Castle doubtfnl. However, the hounds arrived 

 by eleven, as usual, the Master soon after, and 



