1866] NIMROD LONG. 99 



through ; old Will Long was out that day. On December 

 18th the bitches brought off a capital forty minutes from 

 Badger Hills, very fast, and with only a very slight pause 

 throughout. They first ran over Cabourne Top, and then 

 turned to the left past Cabourne village, passing within 

 a field of Badger Hills, and skirting Rothwell village and 

 Rothwell Gorse, eu route to Thoresway village, where the 

 fox, dead beat, lay down in some cabbages. Long got off" 

 his horse and had him all to himself; but he could not 

 get the hounds to him and the foot-people holloa'd so that 

 he escaped. The pack got a view and raced after him, 

 and were on the point of catching him when he got to 

 ground, they being actually at his brush. There was a 

 very hard day from Normanby Clump on December 26th, 

 and Heedless turned up during the day with two inches 

 cut off" her stern ; and on the following day the dog pack 

 was running from fox to fox in the Bradley and Grimsby 

 district the day through. There was a good two-and-a- 

 half-hours' hunting run from Bradley Wood on January 

 17th, 186G, hounds twisting about between Bradley, 

 Aylesby, Irby Holme, and Barnoldby, and eventually 

 losing a dead-beat fox through his getting into a drain. 

 On February 5tli Long records the fact that after drawing- 

 Hell Furze blank, hounds trotted on to Grainsby Healing, 

 as there was cattle plague at Mr. Dauber's farmstead near 

 Beesby Wood. There was a good two-and-a-half-hours' 

 hunt between Bradley Wood and Grainsby Park the 

 same day. 



On February 10th the " Special Commissioner " of the 

 Sporting Gazette was out, and had an opportunity of 

 seeing how the Brocklesby dog hounds could both race 

 and hunt. They had a fine run, now fast and now at 

 hunting pace, from Henholes to Swallow village, and past 

 Bowlands and Cuxwold Asholt nearly to Croxby Pond, 

 then right-handed through Badger Hills to Cabourne 

 village, and so up to the woods with a brace of foxes in 

 front of hounds. Finding that he was running a fresh 

 fox, Long cast back and hit ofi" the line of the hunted 



