.30 THE BROCKLESBY H0UND8. [1817 



Cliarmer, Monitor, Eedrose, Joyful, Empress, Eleanor, 

 Flourish, and Mercury doing particularly well. 



A frost kept hounds in kennels from January 13 th to 

 18th, but the}^ had a very hard day from Rye Hill on 

 January 22nd, when a great many horses were tired out, 

 and even one or two couple of hounds who w^ere short of 

 work. They were running between Killingholme, Houlton's 

 covert, Roxton Wood, and Little London the day through. 



January 24th was productive of a smart burst from 

 Bradley Gears, through Bradley Wood, and over Laceby 

 and Aylesby to Healing, where they ran into their fox ; 

 and on the following day there was another, without a 

 check, from Melton Gallows, through Barnetby and the 

 Welhams, to Bigby, right-handed to AVrawby Mill, where 

 the fox was headed and turned, still right-handed, through 

 Wrawby Whitehill Covert to ground at Welhams. The 

 fox, as he bore a bad character, was got out and given to 

 the hounds. 



Hounds had a regular field-day on the 27th, for there 

 was a grand scent, and they killed no fewer than two and 

 a half brace of foxes, each gallop being without a check. 

 They met at Audleby, found their first fox at Fonaby and 

 killed him in covert, and ran another round the Fonaby 

 and Hundon hillsides till they killed him at Caistor. 

 Next they found in the iVudleby plantation, and after 

 running in covert for half an hour, went away over Fonaby 

 to run a ring in the moors and return to Audleby, where 

 they killed their fox, dead beat. Number four was found 

 at Grasby Bottom, and soon came to hand, and the last 

 fox of the day went away to the Mausoleum, where, after 

 some woodland hunting, hounds killed him too. 



There was a long, hard day from Long Close Wood on 

 January 29tli, hounds killing a Dunkirk fox in Ulceby 

 Carr, and one from AVotton Gorse at Bonby, both after 

 long twisting hunts. 



Meeting at Thoresway on February 17th, hounds first 

 drew several coverts blank ; next killed a Stainton fox 

 after some brisk work round the woodlands ; and then 



