Belvoir Hunt. 79 



across Barrowby Vale towards Casthorpe 

 Covert, killing their fox in iive-and-tHirty 

 minutes. 



On Saturday, the 6th of January, 1877, after 

 meeting at Goadby, intelligence that a fox had 

 taken up his quarters in the Hall gardens led 

 to an invasion of the sanctuary, and a hurried 

 exit along the Bullimore in a race to Harby 

 Hills. Reynard went by Piper Hole Gorse to 

 Holwell Mouth, where, without delay, the field 

 had plenty of work to pound along with 

 hounds by Little Belvoir to Wartnaby stone 

 pits. The fox, after turning over the vale for 

 a short distance, ascended the hill to the 

 railway near Dalby Wood, but again changed 

 his course towards Over Broughton. After 

 running in that direction for a couple of miles 

 he crossed the railway and went over the hill^ 

 leaving Little Dalby on his left, right away ta 

 Willoughby, the fugitive being just in front of 

 the pack as they drove him into the middle of 

 the village, killing him in a hovel in one hour 

 and thirty-five minutes. Excitement ran high 

 as the fox entered the precincts, which was 

 shared by a sporting pig, who broke from his 

 sty and joined the pack, and on the owner — 



