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it on the right as before, and pointed for Tetney. Smith 

 had another try at the Humberston Beck, riding Bridge, a 

 chestnut, this time, and again he got well over. The fox 

 did not cross the road for Tetney village as the others 

 had done, but held straight on, and Tetney Lock was 

 reached thirty-five minutes after leaving Peeks. Here 

 there was a longish check, for the fox had turned off the 

 bank on to the Fitties, where there was not a scrap of 

 scent, and he ran the sands till reaching the Huml^erston 

 foreshore. Here hounds got started again, and headed 

 for Peeks, and the fox ran out of the covert two fields 

 and then went back again to seek shelter in a rabbit-hole, 

 from which he was ignominously scratched out, just on 

 two hours since finding him. There was a good fifty 

 minutes, and a kill, from Bradley Wood, as a finale to a 

 really good day's sport. 



But the fastest run (considering the time we were 

 running) I can remember, came off from Pelham Pillar on 

 March 5 th. Hounds found at once in the young trees, 

 and dashed quickly away to Cabourne Church, a good field 

 in close attendance. Then hounds swung up the slope to 

 Caistor Top House, the huntsman, the first whipper-in, 

 Mr. E. Davy on a horse belonging to Mr. G. J. Young, 

 Mr. Braithwaite's nephew, and "the scribe" being alone 

 with hounds when they crossed the road, and for an hour 

 the rest of the field never saw us again. We had kept 

 close to the flying pack, while the others had eased their 

 horses up the hill from Cabourne to Caistor. Hounds 

 swung right-handed over Canada Lane, and it was steeple- 

 chasing, pure and simple, to within half a field of the 

 Audleby Square Wood. Here they swung down to the 

 corner of the Audleby Home Wood, and turned left to 

 Fonaby House, in the front of which they turned right- 

 handed over the Brigg road and ran nearly to Nettleton 

 Lodge. They came back over the Sand Braes, and had 

 Caistor close on their right as they rose the slopes of the 

 Wolds, crossing the road close to the Top House and point- 

 ing for Normandby. A left turn over the High Street 



