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top) in Holland Wood at 3.50. He had been roused more than an 1882. 

 hour before, and the hounds could only hunt it very slowly through 

 Higher Holland Wood and across the enclosures south of Yard Farm 

 to Span Wood, and up the combe to the road from Poltimore Arms 

 to Simonsbath, as if for Mole's Chamber ; but here he had fol- 

 lowed the road for a quarter of a mile and across Kensford allotment 

 to Kensford Water, and all the way down it to Sheardon, only leaving 

 the stream now and then to jump a fence or cut off a bend in the 

 water. Very pretty hunting. Just above Sheardon Farm he had 

 waited and broke in view from Barcombe Plantation behind Sandy- 

 way, and now the pack began to race. Away, leaving Sandyway a 

 a little to the right, by Litton Foot to Willingford Water ; out to the 

 right below the higher bridge and over Soggy Moor (where he soiled 

 in a bog pit) and Molland Common pointing for Molland, but swung 

 to the left above the enclosures as far as the Brimley Bottom, down 

 it some way and over to the left to Girt Wood and Combe Wood, and 

 up the bottom under the latter, where the hounds got up to him. He 

 turned round and came back, and was killed in the ditch that parts 

 West Anstey and Molland parishes, a little below Bramblecombe 

 Farfn, at 5.40. Two hours and fifty minutes from the lay on. A 

 young deer with B. T. and uprights. (This, again, was formerly not 

 an unusual line, but this was the first deer that had taken it for a 

 great many years. — Ed.) 



December 28M, Vinniford Cross. — Drew Tivington Plantation 

 blank, then Bratton Court Plantation and found six deer. Got a 

 single hind away and laid on the pack. Ran over the hill above 

 Hopcote Brake, keeping to the right across Grabbist, Knowle Hill, 

 and the Minehead road by Avill and through Whitewood into Hare- 

 wood, Then back to Boniton, by Dunster Park to Withies, over 

 Aller Hill to Withycombe Hill, from thence to Combe Farm and 

 Sherwood cover; leaving Rodhuish to the right on to Sandell Farm 



