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near Stock Furlong, and went away throngli Beesby Wood 

 to Hell Furze. Here tlie fox took two or three turns in 

 covert before going away with Wyham on the left, over 

 the wolds towards Wold Newton. With the villa o;e on 

 the right, hounds then turned right-handed for the Thor- 

 ganby Coverts ; but the fox being headed, he went short 

 back on his foil towards Swinhope House, and then turned 

 right-handed on to Louth Road as if for Thorganby, where 

 they appeared to have got on the heel- way of a fox, and 

 so soon came to a standstill. Then they found in Grainsby 

 Healing, going first to North Thoresby and then to Hell 

 Furze, w^here the fox doubled back with Thoresby village 

 on the left, and went over the lordships of Ludborough, 

 Fulstow, Cawthorpe, and Yarborough, towards Little 

 Grimsby Covert. He next made a point for the sea, but, 

 bearing to the left, was headed when going to the left of 

 Cawthorpe village. Once more the fox was headed and 

 hounds came to a check, but Smith lifted them to a 

 holloa in the village, and though he failed to hit off the 

 line where indicated, a wide cast was more successful. 

 Then hounds followed a zigzag line to Quonam Grange, 

 where the huntsman's horse was so exhausted that he bled 

 him, and left him, and went on with a borrowed gee. At 

 Fire Beakon the fox was viewed and headed, not five 

 minutes in front of hounds. It was now^ nearly dark, but 

 Will meant killing his fox if possible, so he pressed on 

 over some strongly fenced enclosures, principally plough, 

 in a zigzag line with Cawthorpe on the right, and the fox 

 sinking fast. But at a quarter to six Smith's horse fell, 

 and remained fast in the ditch ; and, as it was then quite 

 dark, he called to the few remaining members of the field 

 to stop the hounds, they then being twenty-three miles, 

 as the crow files, from their kennels. 



Three days later there was another good gallop — an 

 hour and thirty-five minutes from finding, and an hour and 

 twenty minutes of it in the open. It was with a Weelsby 

 fox, who first led hounds by Humberstone village, over the 

 Humberstone and Tetney marshes to Tetney village, thence 



