114 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1871 



killing their dead-beat fox at the end of it. He was 

 roused in Wootton Gorse, and went away towards Ulceby 

 Field till a right-handed turn brought hounds to Ulceby 

 village, having a brace of foxes in front of them. One 

 went on to Brocklesby Station, bat the Wootton fox 

 crossed the railway into the osiers, and just skirting Zincs, 

 headed for Killingholme. Being turned from his point 

 there, he went away to Thornton Gorse, where hounds got 

 on better terms with him, and after one turn round they 

 forced him into the open again, the Abbey being on the 

 left, and away over the beck as if for East Halton. Once 

 more the fox was headed, causing him to run the beck 

 nearly to Langmere, and recrossing, took a line over the 

 small enclosure at Goxhill to Butters Wood. Turning to 

 the left short of this covert, he went over the railway and 

 ran his head up against a man hedging on Mr. Sargeant's 

 farm, which caused a long check ; but Long eventually 

 recovered the line of his fox, and hunted him slowly over 

 Ulceby Field back to Wootton Gorse. Here the tired fox 

 had waited, but the place soon got too hot to hold hun, 

 and after running him hard for a little distance, they 

 swung back to Wootton village, the heart of the fugitive 

 having failed him, and threading the gardens and small 

 enclosures there, surrendered up his brush in the church- 

 yard. Two days later there was another good day's sport 

 from a meet at Normanby Clump, an hour and a half's 

 gallop from Thorganby Gorse being the best of it. Mr. 

 E. Dowson's horse broke his back that day while jumping 

 •a small fence. There was also a good gallop on February 

 I7th, the lady pack running a Pepperdales fox hard for 

 fifty minutes, and only being robbed of a worry by the 

 fox going to ground in Donkey Park after a wide ring at 

 a smart pace. 



Wind seems to have seriously affected sport this month, 

 and Long having run a thorn into his eye on March 1st, 

 he was kept at home on the 3rd, his first whipper-in 

 hunting the hounds. But the next day found him out 

 with the dog pack, which brought off a good run of three 



