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Stoke Wake, thence by Locketts, through 

 Woolland Wood, and into the Warren, where 

 he was killed. A very pretty gallop of sixty- 

 three minutes. We next found in Puxey 

 Copse, and ran by Haydon Gorse and Fifehead 

 Common to Rooksmoor, turned, and ran up to, 

 and close past, Mr. Connop's house ; and went 

 straight on for Plumber Copse, bearing to the 

 right through Andrews' Gorse, heading for 

 Whitmore, one of Mr. Portman's covers. 

 Leaving this cover two fields to his right, he set 

 his mark for Belchalwell and Okeford Fitzpaine, 

 and, at the end of an hour and a quarter, left 

 the Vale and went for the hills, thinning the 

 field out considerably. Once on the hills 

 he ran through Tumworth Wood, and into 

 Houghton Wood ; running the length of this 

 enormous cover and half-way back, he finally 

 left it for Stickland Wood, going as if for 

 Milton Abbey, but turned back at the Park 

 wall, as if determined to try again for refuge 

 in the big woods. Brown here wisely stopped 

 hounds, as they had now been running over 

 two hours, well into their neighbours' country ; 



