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animal, which had waited in the woods, and sent him 

 over Audleby, till he was headed back into the woods at 

 Brompton Dales. They then went away with Limber Top 

 on the right to Riby Bratlands, where the dead-beat fox 

 crawled about in the briars for some time and eventually 

 went to ground. 



February 2Gth was productive of a very fast run of 

 twenty-eight minutes from Thorganby Gorse, through 

 Swinhope to Click 'Em Inn, and round, with Thorganby 

 Hall on the left, through Beelsby village nearly to Irby 

 Holme, where the fox was headed back to Croxby Pond, 

 and hounds pulled him down just inside the covert. 

 From Click 'Em Inn to Irby Holme it is a four-and-a-half- 

 mile point, and hounds must have run between seven and 

 eight miles. 



On March 7th and 9th there were two good gallops, 

 one a very fast thirty minutes from Coates Gorse to Irby 

 Dales, which was followed by a long slow hunt with a 

 fresh fox, and the other a smart forty- eight minutes from 

 Cottagers' Dale to Hendale, and thence to Barnetby, and 

 by Kirmington and Little Limber, down the Mausoleum 

 Woods to the stables at Brocklesby, where hounds killed 

 their fox. 



But the run of the season — in fact, a run that must 

 have lived in the memory of every person who took part 

 in it, came off on March 14 th. The meet was at Riby 

 Cross-roads, and after a very moderate beginning hounds 

 roused a good stout fox in Irby Dales, and the fun at once 

 became fast and furious. Hounds went away close to 

 their fox nearly to Irby village, turning over the Swallow 

 Cow Pastures and through Swallow Vale and Dauber's 

 covert, to come back between Henholes and Swallow village 

 to Bowlands. Headed here, he went over the Swallow 

 and Croxby lanes, with the Asholt on his lift, and past 

 Cuxwold with a point for Rothwell. Another turn, and 

 with Badger Hills and Cabourne village close on the right, 

 they ran nearly to the High Street, where the fox was 

 again headed back over the Cabourne road nearly to the 



