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hounds cauglit and killed their fox ; and tlie same day 

 brought off a pretty hour's run from Nettleton Hall around 

 Nettleton and Normanby to ground at Tugdale. 



Another good run came off on February 21st from 

 Bradley Cross-roads. After chopping a fox in Bradley 

 Wood, hounds went away from the Gears through Bradley 

 Wood to Little Coates, thence to Scartho, right-handed 

 as if for Bradley Wood, and still right-handed by Coates 

 Covert and along the brook side till the fox turned left- 

 handed back to Bradley Wood. Kunning straight through 

 and placing Barnoldby village on the right, the pack 

 eventually marked their fox to ground on the Ravendale 

 hillside after a good run of an hour and twenty minutes. 



The North Wold Steeple Kace came off on March 4th, 

 Mr. J. Davy's Morgan Rattler being the winner of the 

 first race, and Captain Elwes' The Dandy of the second. 

 The season, a poor one, closed on March 18th. 



Cub-hunting proceedings in 1859 began at the Barrow- 

 osier beds on August 24th, but all the cubs went to ground, 

 so it was a very unsatisfactory commencement. Hounds 

 were out four days a week during cub-hunting, but in the 

 regular season, which opened on November 2nd, they only 

 went out three times a week. 



Smith seems to liave had a rough time of it on 

 November 7th from Swinhope House, and the bulk of 

 the entry in the hunting diary deals with an unruly field 

 and an over-ridden pack. " Would to God we had a 

 Master in the field ! " he says in one place ; and again, " I 

 shall this night go to bed and pray that Lord AVorsley 

 may soon be out to take command ! " 



On December 2nd there was a very fast twenty-five 

 minutes from Grimble Wood to Wold Newton, and unless 

 I am mistaken Mr. Sam Welfit on Emperor, Mr. Walwyn 

 Isles on a mare by Morgan Rattler, and Mr. Sam Robson 

 had by far the best of it all the way ; and then frost kept 

 hounds to their kennels from the 12th to the 30th of the 

 same month, the first good day of the season coming on 

 January 2nd, 1860, from a meet at Grainsby House. 



