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the Marquis of Granby being two of the large field 

 out. A fox found in Tipping's Gorse gave a sharp 

 scurry of fifteen minutes before he surrendered his 

 brush, which was presented by the noble Master to 

 Mrs. Edgar Lubbock. 



A long ding-dong gallop of over an hour 

 happened on November 15th, after meeting at 

 Newton Bar. A fox was chopped in the turnips 

 by Birthorpe, another going away past Folkingham 

 Gorse to Osbournby hill-top, where, says Gillard, 

 "it looked fifty to one on hounds killing him, but 

 a fresh one jumped up in front of the pack or 

 rather ten couples, for seven and a half couple (with 

 the whips) were left behind at Aswarby, and they 

 dashed over Aswarby Park, close at his brush, 

 running on to Cliff Hill and Rauceby. Here 

 they had the bad luck to again change, and after 

 a good dusting on the heath they ran to Braunce- 

 well, where, finding I had but nine and a half couple, 

 no whips, and only two sportsmen left, viz. Mr. 

 Francis Crawley and Mr. Chapman of Frieston, 

 I stopped these stout hounds. The distance as 

 the crow flies would be quite 15 miles, and the 

 line hounds ran about 25." 



A bad day's sport round Elton and Bingham is 

 summed up as follows : " For want of scent and 

 better luck, hounds never stuck to the line very 

 well, and to make more difficulties, our fox crossed 

 a bad country nothing but railways, drains, and 

 the river Smite." 



A stop for frost this season came before Christ- 

 mas, very few days being registered during December, 



