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losing him outside the cover. The afternoon 

 was advanced, so no more was done. 



January 24th. — 



From Red Post, Poyntington, there was 

 great slaughter. We found two foxes in Hack 

 Hill, running first one and then the other to 

 ground ; when, while looking at the retreat 

 chosen by the latter, a misguided fox came 

 running down the hill right into the pack, who 

 did not scruple to make mince-meat of him. 

 We killed a second, who found himself in 

 Holway, and then went to the Wheatsheaf 

 Gorse, and was chopped ; found another there, 

 who gave us a pretty gallop over Poyntington 

 Downs to the Slaites,* then they ran well to 

 the Wheatsheaf Wood and back to the Cleeves, 

 where we had a check ; recovering the line, 

 they ran him over Corton Hill, and down it 

 towards Marston Cover, which he left on his 

 right, and, running along the slope of the hill, 

 went to ground, after a run of over an hour 

 and a quarter, in Stafford Green Gully, 



•Sometimes "Slates.' 



