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Dropping Gutter, where, having given us an 

 hour's gallop, more or less, he left us. 



April nth. — 



The Master brought his pack by train to 

 Bvercreech. He found in Creech Hill, ran a 

 ring for twenty minutes or so, and to ground. 

 Running through Milton Cleveland and the 

 Creech Hill gorses, in vain, the hounds found 

 their next fox near Pitcombe, rattled him 

 towards Shepton Montague, and worked him 

 slowly into Hadspen, on, through the Punch 

 Bowl, and into Lily Wood, where he doubled 

 back, and then ran alongside the Wincanton 

 Road, and ran hounds out of scent on the 

 ploughs near Dean's Bush. Not much scent, 

 though we followed his line for an hour and 

 three-quarters. 



April i2th. — 



There was some rain when we met at 

 Middlemarsh, and had a fine run from the 

 Common, by way of Eight Acres, rising the 

 hill through Mount Silver and Remedy, on to 



