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for some time, turned through Chase Hill and headed for 

 Langmere. Here the fugitive was headed by a cur-dog, 

 who chased him into the marshes, and compelled him to 

 again take to the Humber bank, which he ran for half a 

 mile or so. But the hounds were now overhaulinof him 

 fast, and, running from scent to view, they pulled him 

 down in the mud of the Humber. 



March 6th, 1869, is one of the red-letter days in the 

 history of the Brocklesby, for on that date the lady pack 

 brought off a run that must always be historic, and it is 

 the best that Nimrod Long ever saw in his life. The 

 meet was at the Stainton Plantations, and the first item 

 was a twenty minutes' run from Stainton to Normanby 

 Dales, the eagerness of the field bringing the hunt to an 

 abrupt ending. Claxby Wood and the Plats being tenant- 

 less, hounds trotted ofi' to the Usselby Plantations, where 

 they found opposite the brickyards, and crossing the 

 Market Easen and Caistor road, drove their fox briskly 

 through the Osgodby Plantations. He then ran the road 

 for a quarter of a mile, and, turning to the left, placed 

 Sedge Cop on his right as he headed for Middle Rasen. 

 Just short of the village he was chased by a sheep-dog, 

 and hounds pulled up ; but Long had seen what had 

 happened, and quickly recovered the line. Then the 

 chase swept on through the village of Middle Rasen, 

 across the drain, with AVest Rasen on the right, and with 

 Toft and Toft Newton on the left, and Pilford Bridge on 

 the right, over the Ancholme River as if for Fen Wood. 

 Then came a turn to the left, hounds leading the way 

 through the parishes of Normanby, Owmby, and Saxby, 

 to recross the Ancholme with a point for Doglands Covert, 

 till another turn took them, with Spridlington village on 

 the right, nearly to Hackthorne Mill. Here a man in a 

 gig turned the fox to the left, sending him, with Welton 

 village on the right, towards Dunholme Gorse, and by 

 Cold Hanworth — Spridlington Thorns being close on the 

 left — across the drain at Cold Hanworth. Here he was 

 again headed by a shepherd and his dog and turned back 



