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February iit/i, Marsh Bridge. — Found a hind and a young one 

 in Burridge Wood. They divided in cover, and the hind crossed 

 above the kennels to North Moor, Laid on the pack. She went as 

 far as Summerhouse, and then doubled back to the copse above 

 North Moor, where she was fresh found. Ran her all up the 

 Barle Valley, in and beside the river, to Bradley Ham, where she 

 crossed the water by South Hill Farm to Withypool Common, and 

 along that, parallel to and south of the North Molton road, to within 

 four hundred yards of the Litton allotments ; then to the right, to the 

 gate above Lanacre Bridge, and down over to Kensford Water under 

 Ferny Ball. Crossed the Ball, in the next field to the house, to Cow 

 Castle, and thence right up the valley, hounds all but viewing, to 

 Cornham Mills ; turned out opposite Ricksy Ball for the Bray, but 

 on reaching the top backed it over Vintcombe to the Barle above 

 Dryford. Here the hounds checked, and a fox jumping up, the 

 tenant of Dryford (never dreaming that the staghounds could have 

 run all the way from Dulverton by one p.m.) cheered the puppies on 

 to him. They soon stopped and were got together, but during this 

 delay the rest had hit the right line up the Barle Valley, turning to 

 the left short of Challacombe, and over the common and enclosures 

 to the Bray under Kipscombe Wood. She was last seen near the 

 Friendship Inn pointing for the Tithecombe covers, with two couple 

 and a half still after her. An unsatisfactory end to a great run. 

 Straight as a line (barring the turn over Ricksy Ball) almost from the 

 mouth of the Barle to its source and beyond ; as she ran, a distance 

 of about thirty-five miles. Very fast, reaching Simonsbath in an hour 

 and a half from the find. Most of the field were beaten off at Corn- 

 ham, and none got beyond Challacombe. 



Two very hard days one after another, covering over thirty miles 

 on each. 



September i\ih, Havvkcombe Head.— Drew Greenclose Wood, but 



