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towards Blackford, where a cur dog interfered, 

 and his volunteer services entirely spoilt sport, 

 for we could do nothing beyond the Quarry 

 Plantation. 



April 14th. — 



To wind up the week, I hear the Master 

 had another good Saturday— a very fast forty- 

 eight minutes from Stock ; a good thirty, with 

 a kill in the open, from Brickell's Wood ; and 

 a late afternoon run from Prior's Down, and 

 to ground, I believe, in a faggot stack in 

 Henstridge. 



These hounds have been out every day 

 this week : — Monday, at Stourton ; Tuesday, 

 Thornford, for Honeycombe ; Wednesday, at 

 Redlynch, from which they drew Cogley, and 

 Pink Wood also ; Thursday, at Middlemarsh, 

 in considerable rain; Friday, at Hunters' Lodge, 

 for the large Stourton Woodlands ; and Saturday, 

 at Purse Caundle, for the Holts. Being all 

 woodland days, and woodland country being 

 almost impossible to describe, I will not go 



