PREFACE. 



It is not my intention to keep my readers long at covert side, 

 but a few words are necessary regarding my fox, ere he 

 break away on his two or three hundred page journey. 

 He has taken a great deal of finding, having led me into all 

 parts of Yorkshire, and amongst all sections of the Sporting 

 community, who have most readily and kindly helped me 

 to work out the line. Scent throughout has been most 

 catchy, and I have frequently had to make casts and lift 

 hounds in the unravelling of the story, so many chapters 

 of which time has obliterated. I have written hundreds 

 of letters regarding these portions of the run, and the replies 

 have often been quite as bewildering to the author as informa- 

 tion often is to the man with the horn, when his hunted fox 

 has been viewed travelling South and North at one and the 

 same time. In such cases, I have adopted the only course 

 open and used my own judgment. The hunt has extended 

 over many years, and from week to week during the hunting 

 season records of it have appeared in " The Yorkshire 

 Weekly Post," in which journal most of the matter contained 

 in this volume has appeared, and to the Editor of which my 

 thanks are due. The remainder has been included in articles 

 contributed by the author to "The Crown," "Sporting and 

 Dramatic News," "The Field," " Sporting Chronicle," "New- 

 castle Chronicle," " Baily's Magazine," and other sporting 

 journals, to which the author contributes, and to the Editors 

 of which he also tenders his thanks for permission to re- 

 publish, and for the loan of some of the illustrations which 

 adorn the pages. As in " Cleveland and its Hunt," I again 

 find myself under a debt of obligation to Sir A. E. Pease, 



