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Bewley Wood, and Diintische Common, to 

 Castle Hill. The fencing was severe, the pace 

 good, and the field were soon scattered. We 

 next drew H umber Wood, and ran, not fast, 

 to Melcombe Park, at the far end of which a 

 perfect wall of fog faced us, and hounds were 

 whipped off and sent home. 



The following extracts are taken from a 

 capital article which appeared in The Field, and, 

 being of historic interest, may be inserted here: 

 — "Time flies quickly ; but I find it is many 

 years ago since I took a tour through the 

 good county of Dorset, and I can recollect 

 seeing a great deal that very much impressed me 

 concerning this sporting quarter. It is a land of 

 old county families and 'squires of high degree, 

 and they learnt their fox-hunting from such 

 great masters of the craft as Mr. Farquharson 

 and the Rev. H. F. Yeatman, of Stock House. 

 Thus it occurred to me, at a fashionable 

 Blackmore Vale meet I once had the pleasure of 

 witnessing, that the field was composed, as it 

 should be, of a great many landowners, a great 



