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thence back agaiu to Limber, clown the woods, and away 

 over the paddocks to the Racecourse, where the fox took 

 shelter in a rabbit-hole, but was ignominiously scratched 

 out in less than two minutes. It was a very fine run of 

 two hours and a quarter, the bulk of it over an excellent 

 country, and every hound was up at the worry. 



The curtain went down on this capital season's sport 

 on April 16th, and it was with a very sorrowful heart that 

 Dale took the famous dog pack, the pack that he had 

 bred himself, back to kennels for the last time. And it 

 had been a record season, too, for between August 22nd, 

 1894, and April 16th, 1895, hounds went out one hundred 

 and ten times, and they killed no fewer than one hundred 

 and forty-eight foxes, while it says no little for the earth- 

 stopping that only fourteen brace were marked to ground. 

 The figures read as follows : — 



C'ul)-himtiug 38 days, killed 325 brace. 



Regular hunting 72 ., ,, 4U „ 



Total 110 „ „ 74 



Cub-hunting with the bitch pack only commenced on 

 Aucfust 21st in 1895, and was verv successful, for there 

 was some capital fun, and hounds rolled over twelve brace 

 of foxes in twenty days, besides marking three and a half 

 brace to ground. But there was only average sport till 

 the New Year, and it was not till January 14th that 

 hounds brought off a really great run, and well I re- 

 member it. We met that day at Swallow Cross-roads, 

 found at once in Irby Dales, and no sooner were hounds 

 thrown into covert than a big brown fox was holloa'd 

 away towards Irby village. Placing this on his right, he 

 led us to Mrs. Long's park at Laceby, and with Laceby 

 village on the left, crossed Lock 'Em Lane as if bound for 

 Bradley Wood. But a sheep-dog turned him from his 

 point, so, turning to the right, he then took us straight 

 to Bradley Gears. Hounds just skirted it, and without 

 pause they pressed on towards Scartho, a brace of foxes 

 then being in front of them, made a lean to the right and 



