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lie ran them out of scent, after they had been running 

 continuously for four hours twenty-five minutes. Two 

 days later there was another four-hours' run from Bradley 

 Wood. They seemed to have struck a rich vein of sport 

 in December, for on the 20th, after a meet at Weelsby 

 House, hounds brought off a very fine run of an hour and 

 thirty-five minutes, the greater part of it fast. They 

 began by killing a Weelsby fox after half an hour's work, 

 and then started ofi" from the Grimsby Osiers on the run 

 of the day. Placing Little Coates and Coates Gorse on 

 the left, and Great Coates village on the right, they ran 

 nearly to Healing, where the fox was headed by a plough- 

 team and sent over the railway into the marshes ; but he 

 eventually returned by Stallingborough Covert to Healing, 

 having the Wells on the right and the Gorse on the left, 

 as he ran to the confines of Riby parish. Turning back 

 left-handed through Aylesby, hounds ran the beck-side 

 to the Laceby Spinnies and crossed the Laceby road to 

 run to Bradley Wood and fresh foxes. The leading- 

 hounds kept to the run fox, however, and sent him away 

 to try the earths at Scartho, and on to Waltham Station, 

 where he turned back, and hounds running from scent to 

 view, pulled him down one field from the Waltham and 

 Scartho road. The pack had worked admirably throughout. 

 It is very probable that they changed foxes near Healing 

 Wells. 



On January 10th hounds met at Elkington Cow 

 Pasture after the Louth Ball, and had a good day's sport, 

 which included a run of an hour and forty minutes from 

 a patch of gorse near Welton Vale House, finishing tw^enty- 

 seven and a half miles from home at Burwell village. 

 There was also a good day on January 28 th from Aylesby 

 village, beginning with a fox from the Carr Plantation, 

 who first went to Coates Gorse, and thence through 

 Bradley Wood to Waltham, where hounds pulled him 

 down after a smart twenty-seven minutes' burst. They 

 then found a lot of foxes afoot in Bradley AVood, and 

 went away with one to Scartho bank, turning left over 



