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carried not a few to Brooksby. The day's sport, how- 

 ever, did not amount to much. A fox was soon found 

 at Cream Gorse and as quickly lost, and a second fox 

 was lost after a good thirty-five minutes, with only one 

 check, via Great and Little Dalby, and then towards Lees- 

 thorpe, beyond which place the fox ran the hounds out 

 of scent. Thursday, February 25, 1832, saw the hounds 

 at Norton-by-Galby. Glen Gorse gave a fox directly, 

 and after running by Stretton Hall, Swadborough Lane, 

 Bushby, and Scraptoft Gardens, the fox turned for 

 Humberstone village ; and after going back to Thurnley 

 and eventually to Glen Gorse, he was killed after a 

 capital run of an hour and a quarter, with no check to 

 speak of. Almost a twelvemonth later, that is to say 

 on the 27th February 1833, the hounds met at Six 

 Hills, always a favourite portion of the Ouorn country. 

 Finding a fox at the Curate, hounds ran him by 

 Willoughby village, near Wymeswold, Munday's Gorse, 

 and Walton Thorns. Thence the line lay towards 

 Thrussington Wolds, Ragdale, Schoby Scholes, and 

 Lord Aylesford's Gorse ; Grimston was left on the 

 right, and the fox, running by Old Dalby and Nether 

 Broughton, was eventually rolled over near Stapleford, 

 after a good run of two hours. 



A somewhat curious circumstance happened during 

 Sir Harry Goodricke's mastership. Several times had 

 he run foxes to ground near Widmerpool, and at last 

 he determined at whatever trouble to get out another 

 which had taken refuge in the same place. Spades and 

 pickaxes were brought, and digging operations on an 

 extended scale began. A large stone drain was broken 

 into and the run fox duly driven out ; but in the same 

 drain were the skeletons of nine other foxes. Up to that 

 time it had been supposed that it was the same fox which 

 had so often betaken himself to this favourite shelter. 



Another instance of man making the town is to be 



