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the fine open country to tlie north : and Tile House 

 Beck_, Southery^ New Park Wood and Chambers' 

 Wood are tlie leading meets. These woodlands are 

 so regularly worked by both the packs under notice 

 that the foxes from Wragby are always on the 

 stir^ and finding no peace in the Burton coverts at 

 Wickenby are always ready to fly between one quarter 

 and the other. Consequently either seldom fail to 

 give out at least one good fox per diem when called 

 upon : and from the Wragby Woods he always runs 

 northwards, and away from the Blankney Kennels — 

 never crossing the Witham to the south. Stainfield 

 Wood is almost always drawn by the Blankney on 

 Ash Wednesday : and in Lord Henry Bentinck's day 

 was noted as having_, several years in succession, 

 commemorated that day with a run of high merit. 



Their Thursdays, are generally somewhere in the 

 immediate neighbourhood, or to the east, of Blankney. 

 The chief meets on this day are Blankney itself, 

 Scopwick, Ashby, Nocton — these lying in the deep 

 country between the Heath and the fens (which will 

 be noticed as here stretching down to Boston). 

 Occasional meets on the Heath itself are Temple 

 Bruer (a former possession of the Knights Templar), 

 the Green Man, or now and again Canwick. The 

 Nocton and Blankney Woods are fine coverts ; while 

 working southwards we come to the gorses of 

 Blankney, Kirkby Green, Digby, and Bloxholm — all 

 trusty places and almost certain finds. The Bloxholm 

 Coverts are neutral with the Belvoir, which pack also 

 draw Mr. Chaplin^s thorn covert at Temple Bruer 

 (known as Crow Bottom). On the Heath days they 



