60 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1834 



miles, and that twenty would be the outside. Anyhow, it 

 was a fine performance. Smith describes it as " a most 

 beautiful run," says there was " a good fair hunting 

 scent," and that " the hounds carried a beautiful head 

 and did their work to perfection, particularly Woeful, 

 Nelly, Solomon, Gladsome, Rosamond, and Rector." They 

 met that day at Redbourne House, and got on to the line 

 of a disturbed fox between Redbourne and AVaddingham 

 Banks, hunting him away over the old Roman road by the 

 toll-bar, and with Blyborough on the right, nearly to 

 Yawthorpe. Next they crossed the Gainsborough road, 

 and, with Harpswell Covert on the left, turned first to the 

 right as if for Tiger Holt, and then to the left, with 

 AVillingham on the right, to Normanby. Here the fox 

 turned left-handed along the brook to Stow village, which 

 he skirted on his left, and then ran by Stow Park nearly 

 to Ingoldby. Hounds then swung with him right-handed 

 towards Torksey, turned short to the right along the 

 brook, and then across it towards Marton, where they 

 began to overhaul their fox fast, which caused him to 

 make some very short turns in his efforts to shake ofl" his 

 pursuers. He turned sharp back through Brampton 

 village to Torksey as his last move, and there hounds ran 

 into him in the open. They had run miles into the 

 Burton country, and the kill took place close to the Trent, 

 where it divides the Burton from what is now Lord 

 Galway's country. On March 7th Smith records the fact 

 that he went out with Mr. Freeman's hounds (the South 

 AYold) at Tathwell. But Bailey's "Fox-hunting Dic- 

 tionary " gives Mr. Parker as the Master in 1834, Captain 

 Freeman being given as Master in 1830 to 1832. 



The last good run of the season w^as from Scartho mill 

 on March 18th, hounds finding in Peeks, and going away 

 to the Weelsby Coverts and back again, thence to Hum- 

 berston, and by Waltham, through Bradley Gears to 

 Bradley Wood. After a ring or two in covert hounds 

 went away to Laceby, and ran by Scrub Close to Irby 

 Holme, where they probably changed foxes, and went on 



