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Downs, the Telegraph Hills — the most severe 

 part he could have chosen — and through the 

 whole of the West Dean Woods, a chain of 

 coverts for several miles, keeping the rides the 

 whole way, thereby convincing us that he was 

 in earnest, and that our spurs would be want- 

 ing later in the day. The hounds now crossed 

 the open between these woods and Chalton 

 Forest, close by Colonel George Wyndham's 

 kennel at the Dove, where he was viewed 

 about five minutes before them, and they ap- 

 peared to be running into their fox till within 

 a short distance of the forest, when they came, 

 for the first time, to a trifling check, owing to 

 a flock of sheep. They, however, soon got on 

 their scent a^ain, and then took over the 

 Downs towards Petworth, skirting Burton 

 Park, and keeping the bottom to Graffham, 

 when they again came up the hill, at the end 

 of the hanging wood, passing over a main 

 earth (probably stopped) and over the Down 

 to a large covert on the right, when they got 

 up to him, and he was frequently viewed among 

 the hounds, completely beaten — so much so, 

 that one gentleman actually dismounted to 

 take him from them. We had now been run- 

 ning him two hours and forty minutes, when, 

 at this crisis of such an extraordinary run, 



