36 The Hunting Countries of England. 



mean business, you will see a great deal of sport 

 without having to ride desperately. Tlie country is 

 mostly plough — a great part of it wold (in the full 

 sense of our previous definition). There are few 

 woods of any size, except the neutral ones between 

 Louth and Market Rasen ; but the coverts generally 

 are small and foxes seldom hang long in them. The 

 number of resident gentry in the Brocklesby country 

 is curiously small, and the bulk of the field is made 

 up of farmers well-to-do, well mounted and thoroughly 

 fond of the sport. Some seventy couples of puppies 

 are every year sent out to walk, all or nearly all of 

 which are taken by the tenants of Lady Yarboro\ 

 Never, it should here be remarked, have the pack and 

 the country been an object of greater solicitude than 

 to Her Ladyship — their present ruler; who, besides 

 always riding well to the front and watching her 

 hounds in the field, has made them a study in the 

 kennel, and so gains a double pleasure from being 

 able to discern each individual of the pack as he 

 develop es at his work and in appearance. 



Proceeding now to specify some of their meets and 

 consequent draws — we have to repeat that on Mon- 

 days the Brocklesby are usually in the southern part 

 of their country, between Louth and Grimsby, which 

 is all either wold or Middle Marsh. On the wold they 

 meet at Elkington, Wyham, Cadeby, Binbrook, Thor- 

 ganby. Wold Newton, &c. All these are within half 

 a dozen miles of Louth, and all have good coverts 

 handy — Elkington being for the plantations surround- 

 ing and Agthorpe Wood ; Cadeby and Wyham for 

 ^Vyham Gorse and Hell Furze ; while Binbrook, 



