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for North Lincolnshire. The season finished on April 1st, 

 with a big meet at Audleby Villa. 



August 27th, 1873, found the Hendale Woods ringing 

 with music once more, the young dog hounds entering 

 into the fun of the thing with most satisfactory zeal, and 

 helping to break up a cub at the end of the morning ; 

 while two mornings later the lady pack had even better 

 luck, opening their season's account with a brace of 

 foxes. 



On September 27th they had a morning in the Manby 

 Woods, where they had not been for over twenty years, 

 nor do they go there now. They found two and a half 

 brace of cubs, but after an hour's work they all got to 

 ground. The educational period was not a very satis- 

 factory one, but hounds managed to kill thirty-nine foxes 

 in thirty-seven mornings, besides marking fourteen to 

 ground, before the curtain went up at Laccby Cross-roads 

 on November ord. 



The first item of note was a fast run forty-five minutes 

 with a fox from Claxby Plats, who first headed for Holton, 

 and after running up and down the hills for some time, 

 was sent through Normanby Dales, and killed two fields 

 away the other side. 



There was a very big muster at Brocklesby Hall on 

 December 3rd, which included a large house-party, and 

 there was a capital day's sport, hounds being hard at it 

 for four hours. They found their fox in the osiers at 

 Newsham, and after several rings in the Newsham Coverts, 

 they hunted him away through Habrough village to Fox- 

 holes and Eoxton Wood. A series of rings around Keelby 

 and the Sprothorns followed, and then hounds found them- 

 selves back at Roxton Wood once more, eventually going 

 away towards Immingham and Reeds Mere, and turning 

 again to run through Immingham to Killingholme, where 

 the fox was headed. The pack then hunted him through 

 Houlton's covert, and down the marshes nearly to Battery 

 Marsh, till a right-handed turn took them to the cross- 

 roads at Immingham, where came a long check owing to 



