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eastern district, as hounds were sent tliither on 

 the afternoon before hunting, returning there 

 when the day's work was over, excepting the 

 chase ended on the western side of Grantham, 

 when they were taken home. There was a 

 story told of Goodall one evening after hunting 

 when he had left the hounds at Ropsley, which 

 caused considerable amusement at the time : It 

 appeared that one cold night in December, as 

 Will and his whips set out for Belvoir, it came 

 on very dark, and on striking into the Bridge- 

 end road, near Ropsley Rise, they espied a 

 baker with lamps on his cart jogging along in 

 front. Thinking to make use of his lights, 

 they gave two or three sharp cracks with their 

 whips in order to crave companionship, upon 

 which the terrified driver, concluding that shots 

 had been fired by highwaymen secreted in the 

 wood which ran alongside the road, and that it 

 was a demand upon him to "bale up " with his 

 loaves and money, frantically applying his 

 whip drove as hard as the tit could lay legs to 

 the ground into Grantham and told his doleful 

 story to the police. Needless to say the un- 

 fortunate wight got unmercifully chaffed by 

 his companions of the craft, nobody enjo3ang 

 the nocturnal hunt more than Goodall himself. 



