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breast-higli scent in a fine scenting country, for the most 

 part grass, and Smith says he had not seen hounds run 

 with their heads up and sterns down, as they did all day, 

 for years. 



Thouo-h there were one or two o-ood runs, it was a bad 

 season on the whole, the poor scent being all against the 

 young dog pack, who naturally wanted all the assistance 

 they could get in their first season. 



A fresh start was made on September 18th, 1899, at 

 Newsham Chase, and a brace of cubs were offered up for 

 educational purposes. Stephen Dickins and Jack Bell 

 were still the whippers-in. It was a dry cub-hunting, but 

 hounds worked well, the young entry giving the highest 

 satisfaction, and they killed twenty brace of cubs in 

 twenty-eight days, besides marking four brace to ground, 

 which latter says much for the Brocklesby earth-stoppers 

 with Parks at their head. 



The opening meet this year, on November 6th, was at 

 AVelbeck Hill. There was a very fair day's sport, more 

 remarkable for good hound work than anything else, and 

 a brace of foxes were killed. The dog pack were out. 



Smith was confined to the house with influenza on 

 January 5th, 1900, and till January 15th, so Mr. J. 

 Maunsell Richardson hunted the hounds. He commenced 

 with a grand hunt of two hours and thirty minutes from 

 Roth well Gorse, killing the redoubtable dog fox that had 

 been providing such good runs every time the hounds 

 went into that covert. There was a wonderful scent for 

 the Wolds, and both hounds and horses had done enough 

 by the time the veteran came to hand. 



Mr. Richardson followed up this good run with the 

 bitches with another fine run from Grasby Bottom to 

 Halton Skitter brickyard with the dog pack. Finding at 

 Grasby Bottom, hounds ran hard to the deer park, where 

 a fresh fox jumped up in view, and they hustled him 

 through Irongates Wood, through the Chase by the ride 

 at the narrowest point, and so on through Mark Cooper s 

 covert and over the railway to Ulceby village. A point 



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