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Riby road, and yet again over Cabourne Top to nm a bee- 

 line for Henholes. Hounds got a view as he crossed tlie 

 Swallow road, but some horsemen in the road upset them 

 and the fox escaped, they hunting him on over the 

 Swallow Cow Pastures (where he tried the earths, only 

 just out of view of the pack), and through the end of Irby 

 Dales. Toiling slowly along the Irby slopes to Rush Hill, 

 and so exhausted that he had twice to stop as he ascended 

 the hillside, he went to ground there in view. Time, an 

 hour and sixteen minutes, practically no check for hounds, 

 and horses never had a pull from start to finish. Long- 

 never once touched his hounds, and the field was unanimous 

 in saying that they had never before seen them go so 

 fast for so long. The huntsman decided to dig for his 

 fox, and a fresh one bolted, hounds racing him away 

 through Swallow Vale and Dauber's covert to the Top 

 AVoods, and so on past the Swiss Cottage and Foxdale to 

 Broughton Furze, where they divided into two or three 

 lots, and Long had them stopped. The bitch pack was 

 out that day, and many of the horses were so beat that 

 they could not be got home that night. 



March 28th was the last day of the season, the meet 

 being at Girsby Hall, the home of Captain Fox, the Master 

 of the South Wold, where hounds had gone overnight. 

 The hounds were out a hundred and eight times, killing 

 forty-three brace of foxes and marking twenty-five and a 

 half brace to ground. 



Cub-hunting began at 4.35 on August 23rd, 1866, 

 and a brace of foxes were killed. Lord Worsley, the 

 present earl, came out during the morning and saw the 

 second cub rolled over ; he was blooded by Nimrod Long, 

 who presented him with the brush, and he afterwards 

 went home with the hounds to see them fed. 



A curious incident took place on September 3rd, in 

 Thomas' Wood. While the pack was busy running a fox, 

 a young bitch called Harmony caught a cub, but let him 

 go again. Then Rakish joined issue with her daughter ; 

 but on Long going to them they again let him go, racing 



