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Wood, left it on liis right, crossing tlie brooks 

 for Hazlebury, but bore back left-handed, and 

 then veered in a twisting course for Shortwood 

 and Castle Hill, past Pulham Rectory, to 

 Brockhampton Copse, where he took a sharp 

 ring round, and then went straight over the 

 road to Rue, and away for Alton, where, after 

 a good gallop of an hour and thirty-five 

 minutes, our fox made his case good and left 

 us ; part of this was fast and part of it very 

 slow hunting, and it was no doubt owing to 

 the cold rain which was threatening that scent 

 faded in the evening. We have not done with 

 Winter yet, for on Saturday evening there was 

 sleet and snow after the sun set. 



March 26th. — 



Winter still surrounds us, and a fall of 

 snow helped to account for a want of scent 

 through the day. The meet was at Sparkford. 

 We found a fox in Wearyall and killed him 

 all too quickly. The neighbouring covers not 

 supplying another, we went on to Littleton 

 Hill, and ran a fox out through Compton to 



