128 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1876 



running close by Weelsby Hall, lie recrossed tlie railway 

 for the outskirts of Grimsby town, running through the 

 Abbey gardens, from which he made his way back over 

 the railway to AVeelsby, where he was viewed, looking 

 very beat. But he was a game, stout fox, and still 

 plodded on, past Scartho village towards AValtham, and 

 then left-handed back over the railway, with Peeks close 

 on the right as he went to the Humberstone road. Hounds 

 carried a good head to the road, near where the bridge 

 spans the beck by Glee Gross-roads, and there they stopped ; 

 and, try as he could. Long could not recover the line of 

 his fox. It was a most unsatisfactory finish to a really 

 grand hunting run. 



Three days later there was another good day's sport, 

 this time with the lady pack. They met at Market Rasen 

 Market-place, and began with a fast forty-five minutes 

 from Hambleton Hill to ground at Willingham, a few 

 turns of the spade giving hounds their fox ; and they 

 followed this up with a fine run of an hour and three- 

 (juarters from Glaxby Plats. They ran by Glaxby village 

 to the iron-mines, placing them close on the right, and, 

 after crossing the Nettleton road, the Asholt on the left. 

 Then, crossing the High Street, and with Rothwell Gorse 

 on the left, they pointed for Thoresway. Turning first to 

 the right and then to the left, hounds next pointed for 

 Smithfield, but a turn to the right took them to the 

 Stainton Plantations, and thence nearly to Tealby, where 

 the fox was headed. Turning nearly to the Smithfield 

 Plantations, a right-handed turn over the Barton street 

 led them, with Otby on the left, to Glaxby Wood, running 

 through both the wood and the village, and along the hill- 

 sides past the iron-mines to Tugdale, where the fox went 

 to ground in view. Only Messrs. Harry Brooks and 

 George Davy were with the huntsman at the finish, and 

 they assisted him to get his hounds home. 



There was a good hunting run from a ploughed field 

 near Bowlands on March 8th, hounds running, with Groxby 

 Pond on the right, over Gunnerby and Ravendale, and 



