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A very good run came off on November 20tli, hounds 

 accomplishing a point of over eleven miles, but being 

 unfortunately run out of scent at the finish. They found 

 their fox in Hungerhills, dashing quickly away to Stalling- 

 borough Mill, and leaving it close on the left as the)' 

 swung round through Healing Wells, and placing Healing 

 Gorse and Maud Hole on the left as they ran down to 

 Aylesby village. With this on the right, the pack crossed 

 the brook at Laceby village, running its bank for some 

 distance before turnino- right towards Welbeck Hill and 

 left to cross the Barton street nearer Barnoldby. Beelsby 

 and the Hatcliffe Mill on the Barton street were placed 

 right and left, and hounds pressed on over Ravendale 

 nearly to Peterhills, where the fox turned left-handed 

 nearly to Ashby Cottagers' Plats ; and being headed on the 

 Barton street, returned right-handed, running in succession 

 through Stock Furlong, Beesby Wood, and Hell Furze — it 

 being possible that hounds changed in either of these 

 coverts — nearly to Ludborough. Turning short to the 

 right over the Louth road, hounds hunted on, with 

 Wyham on the right, nearly to Lambcroft, scent growing- 

 weaker and weaker till they came to a standstill at 

 Binbrook Scallows. 



They w^ere stopped by frost from keeping their 

 appointments on eleven occasions in November and 

 December, and there was a long break from December 

 16th till January 5th, caused by some six or seven inches 

 of snow and a very severe frost. It was not till January 

 18th that a Bradley AVood fox provided a capital fifty-five 

 minutes' run before surrendering his brush near Reeds 

 Mere, and lifted the sport above the average. 



There was a very fast thirty-five minutes from Woottou 

 Gorse on January 29th, through Pond Close Wood nearly 

 to Barnetby, and over Searby to the Hendale Woods, 

 hounds catching their fox just before reaching their 

 shelter ; and they followed this up with an hour and 

 twenty minutes' steady hunt around the woods and over 

 the Searby slopes to Low Somerby. The same pack, the 



