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and over the railway, with Butters Wood on the left, 

 nearly to Goxhill Station. Threading some gardens here, 

 the fox then ran the railway for some distance, turned 

 right-handed over some small enclosures at the back of 

 CTOxhill, and crossed the marshes to Mason's osiers. Hounds 

 sent him straight through this covert to the Humber bank, 

 Long getting a view of his fox as he ran, only a little way 

 in front of hounds, to New Holland Station. Then he left 

 the bank, and ran by the railway towards Barrow Osiers, 

 hounds catching him fast. He began to twist and turn 

 through the gardens ; but the pack would not be shaken 

 off, and driving him away to a turnip field, pulled him 

 down in the open. The two whippers-in and the rest of 

 the pack met Long near Thornton Gatehouse, on his way 

 home, and it will be seen that both lots brought off a 

 fine run. 



The next day was a bye day, and the lady pack placed 

 a good fifty-five minutes' gallop to their credit with a 

 Koxton Wood fox. After drawing for some time, they 

 had a brace of foxes afoot, and soon settling down to one, 

 sent him over the Keelby and Little London road and 

 through the Sprothorns to the Southwells, where they had 

 a leash of foxes in front of them. But they never left 

 the hunted animal for a moment, driving him over the 

 Barton street to within a field of the Bratlands, where he 

 turned left-handed to Riby village, and being headed there, 

 right-handed to the Hermitage. Pointing next for Swallow 

 Vale, hounds then turned left through L^by Dales, swing- 

 ing up the slopes to the village of Irby, and away left- 

 handed nearly to Laceby Cross-roads. Again was the 

 fox headed, and turned left-handed to run parallel with 

 the Barton street, and to cross it near Riby with a point 

 for Hungerhills, the fox going to ground in a little place 

 on the Stallingborough roadside, only just out of view of 

 the leading hounds. A few turns of the spade gave him 

 to the pack, who so thoroughly deserved him, after so good 

 a gallop on the last day of the old year. 



The new year opened with an excellent run of an hour 



