44 The Hunting Countries of England. 



go tlirougli tliem witli a determined head, is of some 

 importance. 



Friday is tlie only day in the week on whicli neither 

 pack is out. For tlie others, the Burton hunt Monday, 

 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday ; the Blankney 

 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. 



The Burton are on Mondays, as we have said, often 

 in the Wragby woodlands. Often, however, they 

 advertise for the extreme north of their country, 

 where Magin Moor and Caenby Corner are two of 

 their favourite meets. From the former they have 

 Yawthorpe, Harpswell, and Glentworth Coverts, whilst 

 from the latter they have Caenby Wood, Toft Newton, 

 Spridlington Thorns, and Lord Brownlow^s Covert. 

 From this last, in Mr. Chaplin^s first year of master- 

 ship, they had a great run, which ended in the field 

 being entirely beaten off and the pack remaining' out 

 all night. This was on a Tuesday, and the last 

 hound came in on Saturday morning. They killed 

 their fox by themselves in a covert called Doglands, 

 where at eleven o^clock a keeper found them sleeping 

 round the remains of their quarry — an intrusion they 

 resented by driving him and his lantern away. The 

 5th milestone on the Spital Eoad is not an uncommon 

 fixture. From it they can draw eastward to Hack- 

 thorn and Dunholme Gorse, or westward for Carlton 

 Gorse, Brattleby Thorns or Scampton. Brattleby 

 and Fillingham are also often included in Monday^s 

 meets ; though no hard and fast rule is laid down for 

 this day or Tuesday ; and Wickenby Station, for the 

 famous covert of Wickenby Wood and Holton and 

 Torrington Gorse, occur on the former day. From 



