70 Random Recollections of the 



A good day was notified on the Lincolnshire 

 side on Tuesday, i5tli February, 1876. The 

 meet was Fulbeck, and there were several 

 ladies present ; amongst them Mrs. Franklin^ 

 Miss Crofts, Miss Willson, Mrs. James Hornsby, 

 and a good representation from the Blankney. 

 A trot of two miles took them to a withy bed 

 by the Brant, planted by Captain Willson a 

 few years before, a thriving comfortable habita- 

 tion. Reynard did not wait for ejectment, but 

 made off at once to a narrow plantation on the 

 banks of the river. There was a blazing scent, 

 hounds were through in a jiffy, running 

 eastward towards Reeve's Covert. The pace 

 and heavy ground began to tell a tale, and 

 men deprived of their horses, with sorrowful 

 countenances, might be seen plodding wearily 

 along handicapped by pounds of affectionate 

 clay. The fox was no trifler, onward he went 

 to right of Reeve's Covert, over deep soil, 

 which reduced the pace of sobbing horses, and 

 it was here that a lady who had been riding 

 in the first flight came to grief. However, 

 she wa3 soon up and going as well as ever. 

 Hounds had been running as hard as they 

 could, missing every covert till they came to 

 Beighton's Gorse, about four miles from the 



