22 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1815 



place. Two days later came a very pretty run from Red- 

 bouriie Beaiilands over Redbourne and Hibaldstow to Brigg, 

 and thence, with Castlethorpe on the left, to Broughton 

 Vale, a storm of rain and a cur-dog being responsible for 

 a lost fox. Seven days' frost at the end of the month kept 

 hounds to kennels, and then came a hard day and a poor 

 one, to be followed by a five weeks' spell of frost. The 

 best thing of the hard day, December 30th, was a smart 

 burst from Rough Close, Stallingborough to Irby Dales. 



A very brief entry records the fact that on January 

 6th, 1815, hounds went to disturb the Limber coverts, and 

 killed a leash of foxes, probably in the snow, but a more 

 lengthy account deals with the doings on February 4th of 

 fifty-six and a half couples in the Broeklesby and Roxton 

 Woods, a fair handful for the huntsman and his lieutenants, 

 so that one is not surprised to find that they started for 

 home a couple short, but found them when en route for 

 the kennels, on good terms with a fox in Rough Pastures 

 Wood. On February 6th hounds killed a leash in the 

 Beaiilands Covert, and brought off a fine day's sport two 

 days later from Riby Grove. After chopping a fox in 

 Stallingborough Covert, they ran another from the same 

 place to ground at Keelby Grange ; he was dug out and 

 let go, and saved his brush l)y shuffling his burdens on to 

 another at Rough Pastures, hounds eventually getting 

 heel-way on to a fox at Ulceby Moor and having to give 

 it up. Then, on the 10th, came a very hard day from 

 Kettleby Thorpe, the proceedings consisting of two hard 

 gallops, the first of which was from Welhams. The fox 

 went away past Barnetby and got to ground at AVrawl^y 

 Moor, but hitting oft' the line of a disturbed fox im- 

 mediately they pressed on towards Calta Furze, where, 

 turning to the left, they placed Melton Low Wood and 

 Barnetby on the left, and ran a zigzag course to Welhams. 

 The fox only just poked his nose into the covert and then 

 doubled back for Barnetby ; but, being headed, he turned 

 to the right and with Rigby on the left — hounds then 

 running at great pace — went away to Creampoke Gorse. 



