19011 



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Maux Hall with Little London on tlie right to the Riby 

 road at the outskirts of Stallingborough, where the fox 

 was headed back through Stallingborough Churchyard and 

 over the line nearly to Scrubb Close. But the fox did not 

 go into that snug little covert, and turning back, for he 

 was sinking fast and beginning to run short in consequence, 

 recrossed the line and led hounds by Stallingborough Mill 

 to the gardens of Healing Manor, where they killed him 

 — an old dog fox — after a very fast and enjoyable gallop. 

 The next gallop began at Sutton Thorns, the starting- 

 point of so many good runs, hounds getting their fox into 

 the open without a moment's delay, and sending him by 

 Great Coates Railway Station and the Church, along the 

 valley, and up over Wybers Farm to Pyewipe. From 

 thence to Healing, left-handed over Aylesby to Hunger- 

 hills, and by the Riby Almshouses, Keelby Stone-pit, the 

 Half-way House, and the Limber Schools, into the Mauso- 

 leum Woods at the gas-house, where, with several fresh 

 foxes afoot, the huntsman stopped his hounds after they 

 had been running hard for an hour and ten minutes. 



This wonderfully good season finished on April 13th, 

 the score standing at ninety-eight foxes killed, and fifty- 

 one run to ground in one hundred and twenty-three days' 

 hunting. It is not a great many foxes to kill ; but the 

 Brocklesby country is too well stocked with them to kill 

 many. Personally, it was the best season I have seen 

 with the Brocklesby in a nine years' experience. I only 

 hope I may live to enjoy many more like it. 



JIM SMITH. 



Season. 



1896-1897 

 1897-1898 

 1898-1899 

 1899-1900 

 M900-1901 



Commenced. 



August 17th 

 August 30th 

 August 29th 

 September 18th 

 August 20th 



April 13th 

 April 21st 

 April 11th 

 April 11th 

 April 13th 



To ground. 



36 

 29 

 25 

 39 

 51 



* The season 1901-1902 was also a good one, the sport being perhaps the best 

 shown by any northern pack, and fifty-one brace of foxes were killed. The great 

 run from Bradley Wood, on January 11, 1!M)'_', was without doubt the best this 

 famous covert has ever produced. 



