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February 24th, riding being generally bad, and the wolds 

 invariably having a covering of snow when hounds did go 

 out. There was, however, a very good run on February 

 8th from a meet at Weelsby House, hounds setting oli 

 from Coates Gorse and running a great pace to Healing, 

 where they turned to the right and went to within two 

 marshes of the Humber. Turning to the right again 

 below Stallingborough, they came back to within a field 

 of Coates Gorse, went on to Aylesby village, and through 

 it, with Hungerhills on the left, to Keelby Southwells. 

 Headed a little beyond this covert, the fox turned back, 

 and by Riby Cross-roads ran up to Riby farm, where he 

 was killed in a coalhouse. It was a capital gallop, and 

 the bitches l)ehaved splendidly. There was also a good 

 day for hounds on February 24th, a hunt of three hours 

 and twenty-eight minutes being the chief feature. It 

 l^egan with a ring or two from Rye Hill round East Holton 

 and the Killingholmes, and back through Rye Hill, over 

 the Ulceby road and through Newsham, across Brocklesby 

 Park to the Mausoleum Woods. After running in the 

 woods for some time, the bitches went away by the Limber 

 schools and ran up to Limber Top, turning to the left 

 there, and running through Riby Park to the Hermitage. 

 There were a leash of foxes afoot there, but hounds luckily 

 kept to the hunted animal, and after hustling him round 

 the coverts for a while, pulled him down handsomely in 

 the middle of Riby Park. The next was a hard but 

 unsatisfactory day for the dog hounds from Healing village ; 

 but the bitches scored again on the 28th, a good forty-five 

 minutes from Pepperdale, finishing with a kill at Clixby. 

 March 11th was a windy day, but scent was not bad, and 

 as the foxes elected to run up-wind generally, the lady pack 

 managed to bring off a good hunt of an hour and forty-five 

 minutes. Havino' found a fox in Hunijerhills and killed 

 him at Irby Dales, they ran from the Hermitage to the 

 Mausoleum Woods, thence up Cottagers' Dale to Caistor 

 Gates and Foxdales, and over Audleby and Fonaby to 

 Caistor Top, where the fox turned down- wind and got the 



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