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Hill Copse, and once more by Castles to 

 Sweethills, backwards and forwards again, 

 extending his tour this time so as to take in 

 Leweston, through the Rookery there, and to 

 Honeycombe, along it to Thornford Firs ; and 

 down again from the top of the Ridge to 

 Whitfield, where, after having been running 

 for some three hours, hounds were finally 

 stopped. If that was the same fox through- 

 out he must be giddy still. Horses were not 

 sorry to turn homewards by that time, but it 

 was a fine day's work, over a most sporting 

 country. 



February pth. — 



Another good day was before us, and we 

 had hardly recovered our exertions of the 7th, 

 before putting in an appearance at the other end 

 of the world — at any rate, of the B.V. world — at 

 Zeal's Green. Our hopes had been raised by 

 a report of many foxes here, but as cover after 

 cover was drawn blank — Norwood and all the 

 spinnies round the house, and Bagmore — we 

 began to get anxious, as it was not till hounds 



