188 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [looi 



Sutton Thorns, a boy declaring tliat be bad beard bounds 

 kill tbeir fox. 



Owing to tbe death of our beloved Queen, bounds did 

 not go out between January 21st and February 5th, and 

 frost kept them in kennel on February 13tb and 15tb; 

 but forty couples had a turn in the woods tbe next day, 

 and killed a brace of foxes. Good sport continued to fall 

 to our lot, but tbe next day of exceptional merit took 

 place on February 23rd, after a breakfast meet at Wootton 

 Lawn. Unfortunately neither Master nor deputy Master 

 were out, and bounds were at times shamefully overridden 

 by some visitors from over tbe Humber. Not finding till 

 Thornton College was reached, hounds there killed a lame 

 fox ; but not breaking him up, dashed quickly away with 

 another, leading us at best pace by Killingbolme Manor to 

 Chase Hill, little Syndicate, belonging to Mr. J. Maunsell 

 Richardson, carrying the writer to perfection. Here 

 bounds changed and ran to Killingbolme ; but they got 

 beaten there, and then the Thornton fox was broken 

 up. Finding again in Zincs, they next ran fast and well 

 to Habrough, and by Immingham to Houlton's covert, 

 where they changed, and, with a bad start, hunted beauti- 

 fully round Killingbolme and Habrough to the railway at 

 Foxholes. There tbe fox was headed back by Habrough 

 Church to Houlton's covert again, and the pack bad a 

 brace of foxes in front of them. They ran straight through 

 as if for the marshes, but turning left towards Chase Hill, 

 continued to come round, past Killingbolme — with three 

 foxes now in front of them — to Habrough, w^here Smith 

 decided to stop them when pointing for Roxton Wood. 

 It was a very hard day for hounds and horses, and the 

 (country rode very deep. 



March 6th and 8th gave me two of the most enjoyable 

 days' hunting I can remember, and both were as good as 

 man could wish for. The first was from Welbeck Hill, 

 hounds finding in Irby Holme, and racing away over 

 Beelsby at a tremendous pace, Messrs. J, Maunsell Richard- 

 son, E. P. Rawnsley (the popular Master of the South 



