112 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [is70 



PlantatioDs, killing their fox at the end of it. They first 

 ran by Orford up the valley to Kirmond, and through 

 the Pheasantry to Warmsley Holt and Thorpe-le-Mire. 

 Here the fox was headed back past Kirmond for Stainton- 

 le-Vale, where he turned to the left to Walesby, and again 

 to the left by Bedlam Plantation, and, with Tealby village 

 on the left, went to Tealby Thorpe, at which place hounds 

 ran into him. 



There was a hard day from Linwood Warren House 

 on March 8th, hounds finishing twenty-one miles from 

 their kennels, and they were out eleven hours and three- 

 quarters ; and on March 26th they went by special train 

 to Snelland, to meet at Clay Bridge, in the Burton country, 

 by invitation. There was a very large meet ; but it was 

 a poor scentless day, the land being very dry, though the 

 foxes found led the way over a very good country. 



The season finished on April 2nd, hounds having been 

 out ninety-six times, having killed seventy-nine foxes and 

 marked thirty -two to ground. 



The cub-hunting of 1870 began on "September 5th in 

 the Mausoleum Woods, where there was a good show of 

 foxes, toll being taken of a brace after a satisfactory 

 morning's work with the dog hounds. Then the bitches 

 had a turn, and a fox was placed to their credit before 

 they returned to kennels. 



October 14th was remarkable for the fact that the 

 bitches were running for two hours and a c|uarter in Reeds 

 Mere, a very small and very thick covert, hounds hunting 

 their fox with great courage and gameness, and never 

 leaviug him till he sought shelter in a rabbit -hole, from 

 which he was ignominiously scratched out. 



Laceby Cross-roads was the scene of the opening meet 

 on November 1st, an hour's run from Bradley Wood being 

 the best of a fair day's sport ; but the first good run of 

 the season came oft' on December 10th from Swinhope 

 House, when the dog pack brought off" a good gallop of 

 an hour and twenty-eight minutes from Arthur's Holt and 

 killed their fox. Hounds had divided just before they 



