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Plats to Laceby Beck, where they divided, one lot running 

 a ring towards Bradley, and then bringing their fox back 

 to meet the other, the reunited pack coursing the fox, 

 quite fresh, to AVelbeck Hill, where they divided again. 

 The main body ran nearly to Irby Holme, and away back 

 over the beck, close up to Bradley Wood, and back to 

 Laceby, where the other lot had marked their fox to 

 ground. They pressed on once more, a united pack, 

 nearly to Bradley Wood again, and by Laceby Cottagers' 

 Plats over the beck, and across Aylesby and Healing 

 nearly to Hungerhills, being eventually run out of scent 

 at Aylesby, through having most probably got on a stale 

 line. Time, an hour and forty minutes. Hounds went 

 back to eat their fox run to ground in the morning. 



January 18th, from Stallingborough Station, is another 

 day that deserves permanent record, for hounds ran hard 

 twice, over a big, deep-riding country, and finished alone. 

 They began the day with a race from Sutton Thorns to 

 Battery Marsh, where there were fresh foxes, and hounds 

 changed, running by the main drain through Reeds Mere 

 to Immingham, by the church, and over the marshes to 

 Battery Marsh again. Here they twisted about between 

 Battery Marsh and Reeds Mere till they got on a stale 

 line, and eventually came to a full stop. Time, about an 

 hour, and all good till the last few minutes. But the 

 finale was the most brilliant episode of the day. Several 

 coverts were drawn blank, and it was not till Riby Brat- 

 lands was reached that hounds found again ; but they at 

 once set off at a tremendous pace on the back of their 

 fox, with Mr. Dudding's house and the Hermitage on the 

 right, through Washing Dales, and over Rush Hill as if 

 for Irby Holme. Then they turned over the Barton street 

 straight for Laceby Cemetery, and, leaning to the left, ran 

 straight to Maud Hole and close by Healing Gorse to 

 Healing Wells. Leaving this on the right, the pack 

 pressed on right-handed over the railway below Healing 

 Station, it then being quite dark, and hounds had run 

 clean away from their field, and they were found near 



