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snowstorm, which, continuing through Tuesday, 

 kept hounds in kennel for a long time. 



March 6th. — 



After exactly three weeks to a day of 

 enforced idleness, these hounds resumed work 

 at Bagber Cross Roads. A small field, three 

 in number, had assembled when the hounds 

 arrived, but this soon increased to about a 

 dozen or twenty, and, after some slight hesita- 

 tion on account of the still doubtful state of 

 the ground, the Master decided to throw the 

 pack into Sir Richard's Gorse, at Bagber. 

 Never was a quicker fiud, and away went a 

 good fox, pointing first for Lydlinch, but, 

 bearing left, we all followed the hounds, who 

 ran as if tied to the line, and, our first gate 

 being barred by a snow wreath, and fencing a 

 necessity, caution was soon thrown to the 

 winds ; and we galloped on to Sturminster 

 Newton Bridge, by which some lucky riders 

 crossed the river, others fording it by a rather 

 awkward ford ; thence he went for Plumber, 

 and a very slight pause opposite Mr. Connop's 



