BAGGEAVE. 1 



One section of tliem discovered, after leading- as many 

 horses under shelter as their hovel would accommodate, 

 that they had overloooked the presence of a bull in an 

 obscure corner. The bull was a young and very peace- 

 ably disposed beast ; and kept his temper admirably till 

 a horse backed on to him — when he set to work with a 

 will to cut his way out. The horses got frightened ; so 

 did the men. The former began to kick, the latter to 

 choke on their half-swallowed luncheon — and, in brief, 

 there was the devil to pay. The noise was alarming ; 

 while tlie bull stuck steadily to his task, and at length 

 issued in triumph from under the girths of one of the 

 best-looking hunters from Grantham. Beyond the shock 

 to the nervous system of the company generally, and 

 a few sounding kicks that kept time to the prods ad- 

 ministered by the bull in his passage out, I believe no ill 

 results ensued ; though I doubt if any of the party will 

 care to be included in similar society again. 



An afternoon fox from Buckminster ^^■as afterwards 

 followed smartly over the heath country for three or 

 four miles— leaving tlie ^lelton division to wend a weary 

 way homeward nearly from Stoke Rochfort. 



