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the Grimsby and Laceby road, and swinging round Little 

 Coates, went on with Coates Gorse and Maud Hole left 

 and right nearly to Healing Gorse. Turning at Pyewipe, 

 hounds then went over the railway to run a wide ring in 

 the marshes, and to recross the railway at Great Coates 

 village and take on another fox there. This one they 

 also sent into the marshes, and round through Grimsby 

 Osiers to the confines of Grimsby Town, where the fox 

 was headed and turned towards Bradley Wood. Again 

 they changed, recrossed the Grimsby road, and then ran 

 over Grimsby Field, placing Little Coates on the right as 

 they pressed on past Coates Gorse to the village, where 

 faulty information stopped the chase after a run of just 

 on three hours. 



There was no hunting between February 2nd and 

 February 14th on account of frost ; but amends were 

 made by two good days on the 16th and 17th, the bitches 

 accounting for one fox and the dogs for a leash, as a 

 reward for their efforts. 



March was a very blustery, bad-scenting month, and 

 the only item worth mentioning was a visit of Mr. Fol- 

 jambe and Will Dale, who saw the dog hounds roll over a 

 leash of foxes during a satisfactory day's hunting. 



Long makes a note in his diary that Mr. J. Maunsell 

 Richardson won the Grand National for the second year 

 in succession, on Reugny, on March 26th. 



The curtain went down on April 7th after a bye day, 

 the hounds having been out one hundred and thirteen 

 times, killed ninety-three foxes, and marked forty-four to 

 ground ; and it rose again on August 24th, when the 

 lady pack put in a good spell of work, and rolled a cub 

 over, the dog pack doing ditto the following morning. 

 The last day of education was October the 3 1 st, and was 

 marked by a good fifty-five minutes' run from Kingerby 

 Wood into the Burton country, hounds running into their 

 fox in Fen Wood ; and the opening day from Laceby 

 Cross-roads provided an hour and a half s run with a kill 

 as a good start to the season. 



