14:2 THE BR0CKLE8BY HOUNDS. [1885 



hand ; on the 9th there was a good three hours' wold run 

 from Wyham ; and a good two hours' gallop from Bradley 

 Wood over Barnoldby, Ra^endale, and Cadeby to Lud- 

 l)orough, marked the 16th day of March. The last meet 

 of this capital season was at Wold Newton, and was 

 finished with the death of a brace of old dog foxes, hounds 

 having been out one hundred and twenty-three times and 

 killed the same number of foxes. 



Dale began his second season at Brocklesby with 

 thirty-four couples of old hounds and nineteen couples of 

 youngsters, and the cub-hunting season, which commenced 

 on August 28th with the demise of a fox at Eough 

 Pastures, finished with a total of forty-five killed in thirty - 

 six days. The first day of note came ofi'on November Gth 

 in the shape of a fine run of tw^o hours and three-quarters 

 from Barrow Osiers over Barton, Goxhill, Beaumontcote, 

 and Ferriby, and back to Barton, where the fox just got 

 to ground in front of hounds. There was also a very fast 

 hour and a quarter from Smithfield, by way of Swinhope, 

 Click 'Em Inn, Ravendale, Hatclifte, and Thorganby back 

 to Swinhope, and theuce, on through Arthur's Holt, to 

 Binbrook, where hounds pulled their fox down in the open. 

 Another good wold gallop happened on the 21st of the 

 same month. For the first hour and a half of the two 

 hours' run the bitches went a great pace ; but a declining 

 scent beat them at the finish. Beoinninsf at Ravendale, 

 they sped away down the slopes to Ashby, and at Brigsley 

 changed foxes. Recrossing the Barton street, they ran 

 back to Beelsby, and, with a right-handed turn to Bar- 

 noldby Cross-roads, pressed on nearly to Bradley Gears ; 

 but they turned ofi* left-handed nearly to Bradley Wood, 

 and then checked for the first time. Hitting it off in the 

 direction of Laceby, the bitches went on over Mr. W. R. 

 Marshall's paddocks, the nursery of many a runner on the 

 fiat, and, by way of Aylesby Mill, ran to Healing. Here 

 they turned to the left for Hungerhills, Keelby South 

 Wells, and Roxton Wood, and after a turn or two in 

 covert went away to Rough Pastures and Newsham, where 



