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Wold), and Tom SutclifFe, together witli the huntsman 

 and first whipper-in, showing " how to do it." The pack 

 ran hard, with Beelsby on the right, over the HatclifFe 

 valley and nearly to Eavendale, where they turned over 

 the Barton street, and the brook, past the Becklands to 

 Waltham brickyard, at which place the first slight check 

 occurred. They then ran nearly to Bradley Gears, turned 

 short to the left, and went straight to Welbeck Hill, and, 

 with Beelsby close on the right, made a bee-line over 

 Barnoldby to the Bradley main drain. Here there is no 

 doubt hounds changed, and going into Bradley Wood 

 (where second horses were snapped up), they spent some 

 little time running round the covert before going away 

 again. This was on the Scartho side, and they then ran 

 very fast, with Scartho village on the left, nearly to 

 Waltham Station, crossing the railway, and then going as 

 if for Peeks, but turning short to the left through the 

 Weelsby Square Covert, to mark their fox to ground near 

 the keeper's house. The keeper had heard hounds running, 

 and had hastened to stop the earths — ^just a moment too 

 late. They had been hard at it for two hours and fifty- 

 five minutes since finding in Irby Holme, and had provided 

 a grand day's sport. 



Now for the other, and, I think, the best day of this 

 wonderfully good season. 



Great Coates Station, the mustering place, and a stirrup- 

 cup at the house of Mr. Cecil Stephen, to set us on our 

 way. It was the lady pack out, the dog hounds having 

 provided the fine day's sport above mentioned. Hounds 

 found in Sutton Thorns at once, and dashed quickly away 

 down the marshes, swinging up to Great Coates Station, 

 where an old jack hare — always a nuisance at that time of 

 year — threw hounds into temporary difticulties, so that 

 the fox got a long start, and the pack took but a very 

 faint line into Drake's Gorse. Three or four foxes were 

 found afoot there, and hounds were quickly away, running 

 a very fast ring towards Hungerhills, and left-handed over 

 Aylesby, and by Aylesby Mill over Wybers Farm back to 



