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credit. Twice during tlie day did they effect an eight- 

 mile point, and every horse that saw the finish of the day 

 was done to a turn. Meeting at Aylesby Mill, hounds 

 found in the osiers below, and dashed away at once to the 

 Grimsby Osiers, went on to the railway, and by the side of 

 it ran to Great Coates and Drake's Gorse. Pressing on 

 by Maud Hole and Aylesby Manor to Riby, hounds then 

 turned up to Washingdales, just skirted Irby Dales, and 

 drove their fox hard into Swallow Vale, where they rolled 

 him over after a grand run of an hour and fifteen minutes, 

 twenty minutes of which had been at racing pace. To 

 Bradley Wood next, and a quick find was followed by 

 a mad race to the Grimsby Osiers and so on to Great 

 Coates, where the bitches pulled their fox down, quite 

 burst, after a splendid twenty minutes' scurry. Back to 

 Bradley for fresh material, and hounds were soon speeding 

 away to Barnoldby Cross-roads, where they checked. Dale 

 hit the line ofl" towards Beelsby, and hounds carried it on 

 to Croxby Pond, and through Beelsby, Hatcliffe, and 

 Ravendale back to Croxby, where the chase had to be 

 given up as it was too dark to continue. They had been 

 running hard and well, carrying a good head, right up to 

 the last, and very proud Dale was of his little ladies. 



On February 10th hounds met by invitation at 

 Wickenby. There were two good runs, one a fine old- 

 fashioned hunt of three hours, and the dog pack 

 accounted for a brace of foxes. Next day Mr. Wemyss 

 returned the call bv bringino: the Burton to Stalling- 

 borough, and showed a capital day's sport. It was a very 

 hard one for hounds, who were running twisting foxes the 

 day through, but they were only served by a moderate 

 scent. 



The last good run of the season was provided by the 

 dog hounds, who ran hard from Ravendale past the 

 Becklands and nearly to Bradley, where the fox turned 

 and was caught and killed on the beck side near Welbeck 

 Hill. The season came to an end on April 16th. In 

 spite of being stopped some twenty advertised days, there 



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