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of Auburn Chase. Tacked again down wind ; hunted up 

 to him in a turnip-field, where he jumped up in view — 

 heads up and sterns down, raced him up a steep hill 

 (which stopped the horses), over the open again, and he 

 never broke view until run into beyond Barbury Castle — 

 Jack, the underwhip, first up, on his thorough-bred 

 Irish mare." 



In juxtaposition with these, I will place three 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 Lockswell ; headed 

 back into Bowden Hill coverts, through these, and tried 

 the earths again in Butcher's Copse, which being well 

 stopped, he again broke away through Lockswell into 

 Bowood 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 Derry Hill 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 have travelled over eighteen before he was brought 

 to hand. 



From Bowood Park, the seat of the Marquis of Lans- 

 downe, we had another severe day for hounds. After 

 running and changing foxes about these coverts and the 

 Spye Park woods until three o'clock in the afternoon, one 



