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for we took a good fox away from there, who 

 ran hard through Ashingtou Wood and on to 

 Waindles, through this cover, right down to 

 Yeovil, w^here he took refuge in a building, 

 but was not hospitably received, for while we 

 were casting round he was brought out to us 

 in a sack, and his end was as usual, and Mr. 

 Marsh retains all that remains of him — his 

 brush. The run occupied some forty-five 

 minutes, and the scent was good in the 

 afternoon, in spite of a strong wind. 



March 13th. — 



Five Bridges called forth a large field, 

 and a real rough day we had — blowing, 

 snowing, sleeting, and raining all day long. 

 We spent an hour at Nyland trying to persuade 

 a stay-at-home fox to show us a little sport, 

 which he resolutely declined doing ; it may 

 have been owing to the weather outside, but 

 these tactics seemed common to all foxes, the 

 Fifehead ones behaving in the same way. 

 After remaining there some time Brown went 

 to a "holloa" on the Kington side, and we 



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