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went straight over tlie railway into tlie Usselby plantations. 

 Headed here, he turned up the plantations and crossed the 

 road for the Osgodby Coverts, pointed for Osgodby village, 

 and then crossed the Bishop Bridge road for a straight 

 run to West Easen, from which point he came straight 

 back to the Ussell)y Plantations and went to ground on 

 the railway bank. It was a nine-mile point to the turn 

 at "West Easen, and hounds altogether ran some fourteen 

 miles in an hour and twenty minutes, generally at a great 

 pace. The fox was only just in front of them when he 

 went to ground. The new year (1872) opened wet and 

 stormy, and it was not till February 3rd that sport rose 

 above the average, and on that day the dog hounds 

 brought off a good afternoon gallop of fifty -five minutes 

 from Eoxton Wood, having to be stopped at dark. A 

 really good run came off from Barrow Hall on February 

 7th, but there was an unlucky finish. The fox was found 

 in the New Holland Osiers, and went away by Barrow 

 Haven over the railway, with Goxhill village on the right, 

 pointing for the Humber; but he turned short of the bank, 

 and running through Goxhill parish, crossed the l)eck and 

 went into Langmere Furze. Hounds ran straight throuoh, 

 crossed the Halton Skitter road, and turned into the 

 marshes ; but a swing to the right brought them to Chase 

 Hill, in which covert the first whipper-in viewed the fox 

 with his back up. Nimrod Long got a bad fall one field 

 from the covert, his horse rolling over his thighs. After 

 hanging in covert for some time, hounds went away to 

 Burkinshaw's covert, and at a great pace ran, with Houl- 

 ton's covert and Immingham Church on the left, to the 

 Habrough road, where they checked for three or four 

 minutes before crossing the railway as if for Eoxton Wood. 

 Here the fox was headed, so ran with the wood on the 

 right to Little London village, to be again headed and 

 turned over the beck to Keelby Southwells, the field on 

 their tired horses being completely tailed off. When the 

 staft' got to them it was to find a leash of foxes in front 

 of hounds, and the pack divided, one lot going to Eoxton 



