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for an hour and thirty-five minutes over Scartho, Weelsby, 

 and by Peeks to Humberstone ; thence towards Holton-le- 

 Clay ; and by Waithe, Waltham, Brigsley, and Barnoldby, 

 nearly to Bradley Wood, and left-handed to Laceby, where 

 the fox went to ground in the beck, and unfortunately 

 hounds could not get him. 



Mr. Harry Constance was out on January 15th at 

 Bradley Cross-roads, and experienced a hard day, thanks 

 to the usual scent before a frost, for hounds did not take 

 the field afterwards till January 19th. 



On the 25th of the same month Goosecap got away 

 from Stallingborough with a fox by herself, and as she 

 was just on the point of running into him on the railway 

 near Great Coates, a luggage-train bore down on them ; the 

 fox only escaped by a fluke, and the good little bitch was 

 cut in two. On the same day Damsel was kicked and 

 had her shoulder broken. 



But it is the bye day from Riby Cross-roads on 

 January 26th that stood out brightest in that season, for 

 the dog hounds were running continuously for two hours 

 and three-quarters, and never checked during an hour and 

 ten minutes. After a moderate beginning, hounds roused 

 a good fox in Irby Dales, sending him first, with Irby 

 village and Irby Holme on the left, nearly to Beelsby ; 

 here the fox was headed, and turned left-handed over 

 Welbeck Hill and the Barton street, to cross Lock 'Em 

 Lane close to Laceby, and to turn right-handed over the 

 beck and past the mill, making another right-handed turn, 

 nearly to Bradley Wood. Placing this and the Gears on 

 the left, and Waltham on the right, hounds then crossed 

 the Grimsby and Waltham road, and went to within a 

 field of the railway, where the fox was headed to the right 

 close past Waltham Station, and some sheep brought about 

 the first check one field further on. From now the fox 

 began to run very short, and his wanderings were of a 

 very serpentine nature indeed. Turning first to Waltham 

 village and then to Scartho, he still bore to the right, and 

 crossed the railway as if for the Weelsby Coverts ; but 



