BeIvVOir Hunt. 117 



One Tuesday, towards the end of November^ 

 1894, after meeting at the hospitable mansion 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Montague Thorold, Honington 

 Hall, there was interesting sport. A morning- 

 gallop from Carlton Osiers along the Sleaford 

 railway makes people hurry on with hearts in 

 their mouths, devoutly thankful when the fox 

 turned up hill and made for Sparrow Gorse.. 

 He seemed to have squatted in some turnips,, 

 for hounds, after rushing about in a frantic 

 manner, raced sharp back to Willoughby, with 

 reynard saving his jacket by getting to ground. 

 A gentleman of the neighbourhood proposes 

 that some turnip fields should be attended to 

 near Honington, where up jumps a bewildered 

 fox, and has a narrow escape as two or three of 

 the pack make a simultaneous rush for him. 

 Like an arrow he skims through some rails 

 into the road, and there is an exciting chase 

 along the macadam. Slipping into some fields 

 on the left reynard was pursued at a rattling 

 pace through Carlton Ashes, whence a shrill 

 holloa took the pack joyously along past the 

 village of Gelston. Passing its precincts 

 hounds continued at a good pace below Hough- 

 on-the-Hill, and bore down west, with a slight 

 check on the Brandon road. There is heavy 



