20 SEVERE DAY EOR HOUNDS. 



long badgering days, through heavy woodlands, 

 with a bad scent. " Found a fox in Beckle 

 Wood, near Hartham Park, which first broke away 

 for Sheldon, where, being headed, he turned to 

 the right down wind, and crossing the Bath turn- 

 pike-road below • Corsham Park, reached Lackam 

 Wood, swam the river Avon, and passing through 

 Butcher's Copse, made for' Locks well ; headed 

 back into Bowden Hill coverts, through these, and 

 tried the earths again in Butcher's Copse, which 

 he'mg well stopped, he again broke away through 

 Lockswell into Bovvood Park, across the upper 

 part of the lake, and on towards Blacklands Copse, 

 from which, being turned by a dog, he ran back 

 through the pleasure-grounds of Bowood, and 

 away to Deny liill woods, where the hounds got 

 up to him, and after a good rattling through these 

 thick coverts, they forced him out again, and pulled 

 him down in Bowood Park." 



The distance on the map from point to point, 

 straight across country, is about nine miles, and I 

 think this fox must lua^^e travelled over eighteen 

 before he was brought to hand. 



Prom Bowood Park, the seat of the Marquis 

 of Lansdowne, we had another severe day for 

 hounds. After running and changing foxcs-about 

 these coverts and the Spye Park Avoods until three 



