266 HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



one taken by his Worshipful the Mayor off the 

 gray mare. 



A long spell of ill luck in the Lincolnshire vale 

 was broken on January 23rd, when hounds scored 

 the red-letter day of the season after meeting at 

 Caythorpe. The air was crisp, with a sharp catch 

 of frost, and the ground did not really ride until 

 midday. A visit was first paid to the Beacon, 

 from which covert Mr. R. Bemrose viewed a fox 

 away which gave a nice hunting run to Hough 

 Gorse ; but the run which put into the shade all 

 other performances was that of the afternoon. By 

 consulting the map it will be seen that it took 

 the form of a big loop, measuring 15 miles from 

 Stubton Rookery nearly to Brandon, out round 

 Brant Broughton, the farthest point, back by 

 Beeckingham to Stubton Coverts, where they 

 marked to ground, bolted, and killed him. It is 

 a big country to ride, and the pace too that hounds 

 travelled was sufficient to try the best horses in 

 this run of one hour and twenty -five minutes. 

 Gillard, on a clever old roan mare, piloted the 

 way, whilst in the vanguard Mr. and Mrs. Edgar 

 Lubbock, Lord Edward Manners, Mr. F. A. 

 Soames, Mr. F. Worsley, Mr. S. K. Marsland, 

 Mr. J. Hutchinson, Mr. A. Hutchinson, Mr. F. 

 Parker, the three brothers Rudkin, and Mr. R. 

 Dowse with PoweU were conspicuous. Grief and 

 disaster there was all along the line, the river 

 Brant coming twice into the run, but at the finish 

 Lord Edward Manners presented the brush to Mr. 

 Marsland, who well deserved the honour, having 



