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Wood first, and after one turn round the covert dashed 

 quickly away nearly to Welbeck Hill and then turned 

 right-handed into Mrs. Long's garden, where they ran into 

 their fox after a fast twenty-eight minutes' gallop. Then 

 came a fine fifty-five minutes' hunt from Drake's Gorse, a 

 ring over Healing, Aylesby, Riby, and Lacebyback to the 

 Gorse ; but hounds, unfortunately, changed foxes first and 

 then got on to a stale line afterwards that came to nothing. 

 A capital run of an hour and a half from Eiby Bratlands, 

 hounds having to be stopped at dark, although close to 

 their fox, finished the day. The middle gallop was the 

 best, and Mr. J.iMaunsell Richardson and Jim Smith, who 

 showed us the way, and Lord Yarborough, Captain Dudley 

 Pelham, Mr. E. R. A. Shearman, Miss Carr Smith, Mr. 

 T. Sutclifte, Mr. C. R. Stephen, Mr. C. Darley, and Stephen 

 Dickins saw the cream of it. 



A good run, too, came ofi' on December 11th, after a 

 breakfast meet at Burnham Beeches, and a moderate 

 morning's sport. The good fox who provided the gallop 

 lay kennelled in Thornton Gorse, but he went out one 

 side as hounds went in at the other, and they ran hard up 

 wind as if for Ulceby Station, crossing the railway and 

 the road with a point for Wootton. Leaving the village 

 on the right, hounds then ran on to Ulceby village, where 

 the fox was headed and turned left-handed to Zincs. 

 Just touching the covert over the road, and trying the 

 earths at Rye Hill, the fox then set his mask for Im- 

 mingham ; but, still bearing to the left, he brought hounds 

 to a check, the first since leaving Thornton, which caused 

 the huntsman to tender his assistance. He struck him in 

 the road, and hounds ran up it for a quarter of a mile 

 towards Killingholme, Parody alone speaking to the line 

 with any confidence ; then going with East Halton on 

 the right, hounds made a point first for Thornton and 

 then turned back through East Halton village to Chase 

 Hill, which we reached in an hour and twenty minutes. 

 The hunted fox was frequently seen in the covert, but 

 pressure could not be concentrated on him in consequence 



