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from us. Admired hounds and their hunting very much indeed. 

 W. H. A. Wharton, Esq.. Master and Huntsman. 



During the season 1895-6 hounds were out 74 days and killed 

 during cubbing 4| brace, and during the regular season 5£ brace, ran 

 to ground in all 7 \ brace. Hounds were never stopped by frost. 



Skason 1896-7. 



On Oct. 17, 1896, a run worth recording took place. Hounds met 

 at Helmsley, and 19£ couples were thrown into Ashdale, which was 

 blank. Collier Hagg, however, held a fox, and hounds ran very hard 

 with a rare scent to ground in Riccaldale, where they found again, 

 and " ran as hard as they could go through Skiplam, Robin Hood Howl, 

 and Ravens wyke, where he tried the earth by Duna Lodge, and over 

 Appleton Common, through Skipster Hagg and Bishop's Hagg to Daw- 

 son Wood, where they changed on to a fresh fox, and after we had 

 got them stopped, we never could recover the beaten one. Best scent 

 we have ever had in the high country. Seven mile point. Rea Garth, 

 in Riccaldale, to Dawson Wood." 



Nov. 16. — Riccall Bridge ; killed one fox, found at once on Pockley 

 side. " Found a second in a tree bottom, and a man got him out and 

 chucked him to hounds, much to my disgust, as I wished him to have 

 a go." Other two foxes were found later. There were 25 couples of 

 hounds out on this day, as on November 23, when a fox found in Pryor 

 Rigg ran round the covert, with hounds close at him. and away to 

 Ampleforth Whin, where the fox got into a snare, and hounds killed him. 



Nov. 26. — Thatcher got a fall and broke three ribs at a drain near 

 Ness, below Numungton Mill. 



Friday, Feb. 19, 1897. — Wrelton, 11 a.m. ; found in Dawson Wood 

 (a brace of foxes). Ran through Skipster Hagg and down double 

 dyke side between them, and across Appleton Common to Lingmoor. 

 The fox then turned to the left and across the Katter Beck, and went 

 along the hill-side between the Common and the Kirby Road, and 

 across the Common. Tried the drain by Mr. Strickland's house in the 

 railway bank (time 30 mins.) ; the drain was stopped, and fox coursed 

 by a dog, so a longish check was occasioned, and, eventually, hounds 

 hit off a sort of line in Dawson Wood, and holding them on into Bishop's 

 Hagg, they got up to the fox again, and ran hard away across the 

 valley up by the side of Howlgate Head, Hell Bank, Hamley Banks, 

 and down the hill by the end of Crow Wood, and away on to the moor 

 to Middle Aiskew, where he was headed, and hounds checked ; but 

 I got a halloo, and clapped them across the beck to the Rosedale Road, 

 and they ran on across the moor past Spire's Bank, leaving it to the left, 

 and on up the right hand side of the Hartoft Beck, which he crossed 

 and went through Russell plantation and over the hill, going across 

 the Rosedale Road and down to the Seven River Bank. He turned 

 back here, and came up to the road nearly on his own line. Here 



