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at the fetlock joint, and he was in consequence shot at 

 once. But the next morning the joint was found to have 

 been dislocated, and not broken. 



Hounds did not hunt from October 31st to November 

 13th in consequence of the death of the Countess of 

 Listowel, Lady Yarborougli's mother ; they had been out 

 cub-hunting on thirty-nine occasions, and had killed 

 twenty brace of foxes, besides running three and a half 

 brace to orround. 



Eegular hunting began on November 13th at Laceby 

 Cross-roads, the ground being very frost-bound and bad to 

 ride over, while sport was of the poorest. There was no 

 hunting from November 17th to November 24th, and for 

 two days Long was laid up with a severe cold. Lord 

 Yarborough also had a bad fall on November 25 th through 

 his horse slipping on some ice, and he suffered from a 

 slight concussion of the brain. Frost again stopped hunt- 

 ing from December 4th to December 11th, but there was 

 some capital sport towards the end of the month, notably 

 December 20th, when there was a full day's hunting from 

 Riby Cross-roads ; on December 22nd, when there was a 

 grand run of two hours and a half from Thorganby Hall 

 to Nor Woods ; on December 27th, when hounds were 

 actually running all day from Yarborough Camp, and 

 were stopped at dark at Houlton's covert ; and on 

 December 29 th, when hounds brought off a day's sport 

 from Stainton Plantation that deserves more than casual 

 reference. The bitches began by running hard round 

 Stainton for twenty minutes, and killing their fox, and 

 found again in the plantations and killed after another 

 fast gallop of half an hour. 



But the great run of the day began from the covert at 

 the Stainton Cross-roads, hounds getting quickly away 

 with their fox, and hustling him through the chain of 

 coverts and left-handed over the High Street as if for 

 Normanby Dales. Leaning to the left, however, the fox 

 sunk the hill between Otby and Normanby Dales, and 

 with Claxby Wood on the right, and AValesby on the left, 



