354 '^^^• 



Gorse, and terminated the day's proceedings 

 with a kill. 



January 5th. — 



A good company met at Lattiford House, 

 and, as fine mild weather had succeeded the 

 frost, everybody was on the ride. Grove 

 Withybed was the first draw, and, for a wonder, 

 was drawn blank, but the reason was 

 explained when, two fields outside it, hounds 

 eagerly picked up the line of the "stole-away" 

 fox ; slowly at first they worked it, along two 

 hedgerows, but then, flinging their tongues, 

 they began racing over the green lane, on to 

 Ash Tree Copse, and shot out again over the 

 road, heading for Rodgrove. But here he 

 must have been headed, for he suddenly bore 

 sharp left-handed, crossing the road again and 

 the Cale River, and thence, bearing due north, 

 on we went to Horwood, past Snagg Farm, 

 leaving Stoke Trister on the right, and away 

 for Hunters' Lodge; but, leaving that, too, on 

 the right, we bent left-handed and over the 

 hill to Charlton Musgrove Copse, and here he 



