358 1888. 



a little clearer, though it w^as almost a case of 

 the wish being father to the thought. After 

 finding in Middlemarsh Common and losing near 

 Butterwick, another fox was pushed out of 

 Ivongburton Gorse ; he went over the road and 

 returned to the gorse, making his way there to 

 Six Acres, round it, away over Cancer Drove for 

 Stockbridge, and by Longburton Common to 

 Broke ; then by Folke Withybed, on, leaving 

 Fontleroi on his right, and he was pulled down 

 in a small spinney under the Holts in thirty- 

 three minutes from the find. This was a pretty 

 gallop for the few who could see it, but those 

 who were not close to hounds had no chance in 

 the fog. One gentleman in the Artillery had 

 the misfortune to dislocate his arm in the course 

 of the run. 



January 13th. - 



At Pulham things looked slightly better, 

 as we could see into the second field. From 

 Pulham we trotted straight to Shortwood, 

 whence a fox, after hanging some time in 

 cover, went away, rather well at first, by 



