104 THE BROCKLESBY H0UND8. [1867 



hounds ran up to Wootton, where the fox was again 

 headed back to Ulceby village and sent across the railway ; 

 the rest of the pack, having been brought up by Lord 

 Yarborough, joined in there, and the reunited forces 

 pulled their fox down between the Osiers and the Thornton 

 road, after a fine run of an hour and twenty-five minutes. 

 There was one other good day in February, from Swinhope 

 House, when an enjoyable hunt finished with a fine fifty- 

 five minutes' gallop from Smithfield, which had a kill in 

 the open at Gunnerby as a finale. The best day in March 

 was on the 11 th, when hounds met at Weelsby House, bring- 

 ing off a capital fifty-nine minutes' gallop in the morning, 

 and killing their fox ; and they finished the day at 

 Nettleton, an hour and thirty-five minutes from the Swiss 

 Cottage, being the best performance in the afternoon. 

 Hunting was stopped by frost from March 11th to the 

 21st, and there was no run of note during the rest of the 

 season. Hounds had been out one hundred and ten times, 

 killing forty-eight brace of foxes and running seventeen 

 and a half brace to ground. 



Cub-hunting that year began on August 30th, and it 

 proved on the whole a fairly successful one. 



The regular season opened with a breakfast at 

 Brocklesby Hall on November 4 th, and the stafi" were all 

 mounted on chestnut horses. Lord Yarborough presented 

 Long with a silver horn that day. 



The first good day was on November 23rd from Usselby 

 Station, hounds first running a fox from the Usselby 

 Plantations to Walesby, Normanby Dales, and Claxby 

 Wood, where they killed him after a few turns round the 

 covert ; and they afterwards finished an hour and a half's 

 run from Walesby, at dark, not far from where they found. 



From December 2nd to December 11th hunting was 

 stopped by frost, and again on the 20th and 21st. 



Lord Yarborough carried the horn at Pelham Pillar on 

 December 30th, Long having gone to Badminton to see 

 a stud hound ; and he then had a day with the pack with 

 which the name of Long is so intimately associated. 



