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" This arrangement to terminate, like the former, on notice being given by 

 Lord Yarborough to the Masters of the South Wold and Burton Hounds. 

 "Dated this 16th day of September, 1895. 



" (Signed) Yarborough. 



E. P. Kawxsley." 



The north-west part of Lincolnshire is not hunted, 

 and hounds now seldom get east of the Great Northern 

 Eailway from Grimsby to Louth, except round Weelsby 

 and Humberston. Taking the north-west portion of the 

 country that is hunted, first, namely, that part to the 

 west of the railway from New Holland to Brocklesby and 

 thence to Brigg, there is a capital piece of country below 

 the wolds, between Barton and Thornton, a fair propor- 

 tion grass, and good fencing, each hedge having a ditch 

 to it, and both well trimmed. The Barrow Osiers is the 

 best covert in that small but excellent strip of country. 

 There is a nice bit of wold country between the railway 

 and the road from Barton to Brigg, but west of that road 

 and down to the river Ancholme it is poor hunting, the 

 foxes being scarce and lacking in enterprise, and the fences 

 thin, unguarded plashed hedges, w^hile Elsham, the southern 

 part, is perforated with rabbit-holes and largely given 

 over to the long-tails. Barton Market-place, Bonby 

 Lodge, Elsham village, and Melton Gallows are the chief 

 fixtures in this extreme north-western portion of the 

 country, but the meets are poorly attended except by 

 residents in the neighbourhood. Ferriby Gorse, Horkstow 

 Covert, Turton's Gorse, the Saxby, Bonby, and Worlaby 

 hillsides, and the Elsham and Wrawby Moor Woods are 

 the chief coverts. 



The bit of wold country above referred to is productive 

 of much better sport, and such coverts as Burnham Gorse, 

 Wootton Gorse, Melton High Wood, Yarborough Camp, 

 and Long Close Wood have often been the starting-points 

 of excellent runs. Though mostly trim wold fences, there 

 are here and there some wide ditches to be negotiated, 

 and an animal that can spread himself when necessary is 

 very desirable in that country. Well do I remember the 



