66 THE BROCKLEvSBY HOUNDS. [1837 



as if for Binbrook. But a turn to the left brought hounds 

 round with Swinhope Bratts on the right, and still bearing 

 to the left they came round with Little Ravendale on the 

 right with a straight point for Beelsby Covert, The pack 

 then ran from scent to view and were catching him fast 

 when he reached the covert, and with one or two fresh 

 foxes afoot they soon got broken up. However, the run 

 fox went away again and was hunted to an under drain 

 by the Beelsby road, from which he was bolted and once 

 more reached the covert, dead beat. Hounds then went 

 away with a fresh fox in view, but they were stopped and 

 brought back to the gorse, where Smith soon had the 

 satisfaction of blowing la morte over the remains of his 

 hunted fox. It is a three-and-a-half-mile point from Irby 

 Holme to Brigsley and a six-mile point from Irby Holme 

 to the turn beyond Swinhope. Hounds had run over a 

 capital country, and had the gorse been two hundred 

 yards further, the first time they ran back to it they must 

 have caught their fox. A great many horses were beat, 

 and a bitch called Dahlia did more work than any other 

 hound, but she was not very free with her tongue. 



April 15th brought out at Newsham Chase, among 

 others, Mr. Hodgson, the Master of the Holderness, and 

 a party of friends from Beverley ; Carter, Sir Tatton 

 Sykes' huntsman ; and Will Long, the Duke of Beaufort's 

 huntsman. 



April 21st from Kingerby was the last day's hunting, 

 Sir Richard Sutton and a number from the Burton putting 

 in an appearance ; but both the Duke of Beaufort and 

 Mr. Errington, who were expected, had been obliged 

 to leave Lincolnshire a day or two before. It had been 

 a moderate season, and the foxes bad, for they were not 

 half hunted ; only three days a week in a country, 

 that. Smith says, could easily accomplish six, being in the 

 main the reason. Scent was never very good, but the 

 hounds worked wonderfully well, and killed sixty -four 

 foxes besides running sixteen to ground. 



Cub-hunting in 1837 began on September 4th, and 



