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ENGLAND S OLDEST HUNT. 



So they toasted the sport again and again, 

 Good luck to the pack and all good sportsmen ; 

 Bad luck to the keeper who turns out a foe, 

 And they ended the toast with a loud Tally-ho ! 



INTERIOR OF SPOUT HOUSE. 



During the season 1896-1897, Mr. Robert Garbutt, men- 

 tioned in the foregoing song, and his son, Mr. Edward 

 Garbutt, had the hounds, and saw their best sport over the 

 Hambleton side of the country. " Ted " whipped to his 

 father,and occasionally carried the horn, and was, and indeed 

 is now, a hard fellow over a country. The Garbutt family 

 have long been connected with the history of the Hunt, 

 and Robert's brother " Chappie " is now the oldest member, 

 and Chairman of the Hunt Committee. His forbears have 

 always walked a hound, and called it " Ruby," and to this 

 day there is a Ruby at " Chappie's " farm at Hawnby. In 

 my diary, on November 9th, 1903, I made the following 

 entry : — 



Yesterday I was at the Bilsdale Hunt dinner at Chop Yat. It was 



