I(i0 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1896 



checked for a few minutes, just behind Waltham Old 

 Hall. The pace had been " a cracker " all the way from 

 Irby Dales, so that it was by no means unwelcome. Dale 

 hit off the line below the village on the Bradley side, and 

 hounds were soon tearing away past Mr. Charles Nainby's 

 snug little covert, and led us over the brook — well do I 

 remember the bullfinch on the landing side — to Brigsley. 

 Here they got up to their fox, in the screen on the road- 

 side ; but he managed to get away, and pointing first 

 towards Waltham, came round right-handed to Ashby-cum- 

 Fenby, and so led us, with Waithe on the left, to Grainsby 

 Park. A very l^rief check here, and then the pace was 

 very much increased as we galloped nearly to Autby, 

 where the fox was headed and turned over the Barton 

 street to Hawerby. Leaving Mr. Harneis's house behind, 

 we pass Stock Furlong en route for Wold Newton ; and 

 Dale thinks we must have changed somewhere here. But 

 hounds kept pegging away, and, taking us by Binbrook 

 Scallows to Kelstern, had to give it up through a declin- 

 ing scent in the big wold fields there. They had been 

 running for two hours and a quarter, and had covered 

 considerably over twenty miles. They had effected a 

 twelve-mile point from find to finish, and it was a nine- 

 mile point from the turn out of the vale at Grainsby. 

 Bridget and Bertram carried Will Dale and Jim Smith 

 respectively in excellent style through the run. 



There was a very big meet at Bradley Cross-roads on 

 March 10th, but the proceedings at first were tame enough. 

 However, hounds found a good fox in Sutton Thorns, and 

 then the fun became fast and furious. They went to 

 Battery Marsh at a tremendous pace, running clean away 

 from their field, took a turn or two round the covert and 

 then went on by way of Immingham to Houlton's covert, 

 where they killed their fox after a fine sixty-five minutes' 

 run. 



The Warwickshire Hounds, having finished their 

 season, were invited by Mr. J. Maunsell Richardson, who 

 was acting Master during Lord Yarborough's absence in 



