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the fields above Sigwells. Here lie bore left 

 and ran to and through Bristol Gorse, thence 

 towards Compton Castle covers ; he came out 

 of them and ran a ring over the ploughs 

 towards Blackford, returning to the lodge of 

 Compton, where he mysteriously disappeared. 

 After this we trotted home in the sleet, which 

 ended a little later in snow. 



March 27th. — 



The ground being white, the blaster 

 allowed a little time for the snow to thaw, and 

 it was not till half-past eleven that a largish 

 field left Fontleroi and proceeded to see Ferney 

 Down drawn blank, and several other covers 

 also — Snagg's Harbour, Folke Withybed, 

 Buckshaw Brake amongst them — the foxes 

 seeming to have melted away with the snow. 

 In Lanes, however, we found, but hounds 

 were soon whipped off that one and taken to 

 the Holts, where another was quickly found, and 

 as quickly marked to ground, and left there. 

 A third was soon on foot, and hounds ran it 

 round the covers, down Rowditches, and out, 



