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his horse being loose for a long time ; and Lady Yar- 

 borough, who was hunting on wheels, so tired both horses 

 that she was obliged to leave the carriage at Keelby and 

 walk back to Brocklesby. The accident to Jack Hastings' 

 horse occurred within half a mile of the place where 

 Philip Tocock's horse broke his neck in 1862. 



There was a slow, but continuous, hunt of four and a 

 half hours with an indifferent scent, from Bigby Cow 

 Pasture on November 4th, and another four and a half 

 hours' continuous hunting from Hell Furze two days later, 

 finished with a kill just outside Croxby Pond. Hounds 

 had run through Beesby Wood and Stock Furlong, past 

 Peterhills and Ravendale, and through Hatcliffe into the 

 Croxby Pond Woods. Here they ran from fox to fox for 

 some time, and then went away to Thorganby Gorse, 

 where they got up to their fox, and sent him with a 

 rattle through Swinhope towards Binbrook, near which a 

 fox got up in view out of a piece of turnips. In the square 

 covert at the cross-roads above Swinhope they spent some 

 time hustling him round, then they returned to Croxby 

 Pond, and after an hour's hunting in the woods there, 

 killed him in the open a field away. 



There was an excellent run of three and a half hours 

 from Howsham village on November 25tli, darkness alone 

 saving the fox his brush. After killing a fox in Pool- 

 thorn, a brace were roused in Pepperdales, and having run 

 one to ground in Donkey Park, hounds went back to the 

 other, and hunted him away through the Bigby Coverts 

 to Somerby, and over the hills to the woods at Grasby 

 Bottom. iVt Brompton Furze hounds turned to the left, 

 and pointed for Limber, swinging over the Caistor road 

 and into the woods at Chalk House Bottom. They then 

 ran up Foxdales to the Swiss Cottage, and over the road 

 to Dauber's covert, where they got on good terms with 

 a fox and raced him away through Swallow Vale and Irby 

 Dales towards Aylesby. Turning to the left on the Riby 

 road, and leaving Riby Park on the right hand, hounds 

 ran on to Limber Top, to the Keelby road, and left-handed 



