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" Drew Seamer Wood, Lobsay Hill, and a few drains blank. 

 Found a cub in Ness Wood, and ran with clinking scent and best cry 

 we have had cub-hunting for years round and round the wood, then 

 away through Greensykes to Golden Square and on to Grange Whin, 

 where there were two or three more foxes on foot. Scent still excellent. 

 Hunted about Grange Whin for some time, and one party of hounds 

 ran a fox back to Greensykes and Ness Wood. They were brought 

 back, however, and I got the whole lot, fortunately, on to a mangy 

 cub (the only one) ; ran him like distraction round and round Grange 

 Whin. Almost in view, and when they were just going to * nobble * 

 him, he popped to ground in a rabbit hole. Dug him out and worried. 

 The best cub-hunt we ever had ! A capital scent, and a decent lot 

 of foxes." 



Henley whs now with the Sinnington, and after two fixtures had 

 been postponed, on October 10 and 13, owing to Mr. Sherbrooke being 

 ill, Henley hunted hounds from Helmsley on October 16 on a very 

 stormy day, when foxes were underground. They found some cubs, 

 and ran hard from Tom Smith's Cross to the Rye, where the hunted 

 cub went to ground. Hounds then went home owing to the weather. 

 On November 7, Henley was still hunting the pack. The fixture was at 

 Cropton Bridge, and Mr. Sherbrooke met his hounds at Hamley Banks, 

 " A fox was found in Dawson Wood and ran with much improved 

 scent to Stabler's Wood, and then cut as if for Cass Hagg. Fox was 

 headed, and turned back, and ran up Sinnnigton Woods to Cropton 

 then across the beck and down Hamley Banks and to ground on Hell 

 Bank. It was getting dark, and as Henley was coming up hounds 

 got on the line of a fresh fox, and went off with screaming scent. They 

 ran all over the Sinnington Woods, up and down, and, eventually, 

 ran their fox to ground, close in front of them, in Lastingham Banks. 

 They did not get home till 8 p.m. A clinking evening's work for the 

 hounds, ' Ringwood ' doing very well. Henley still hunting hounds." 

 Not till November 17 did Mr. Sherbrooke again carry the horn. On 

 December 1, Lord Ribblesdale was out and hounds were called off at 

 dark, after a fair day. Some good runs followed this, of one and two 

 hours' duration. In the following month (January, 1899), Henley was 

 ill, and Mr. Robin Hill whipped in. On January 23, hounds met at 

 Riccall Bridge, but Mr. Sherbrooke " came home at 2-30, as I was wet 

 through, having gone into one of the becks to fish out ' Fencer,' who 

 was caught in some wire, and nearly drowning." 



February 2.5. — Mot Hutton-le-Hole ; found in Dawson Wood, 

 after drawing Bishop's Hagg blank, and then ran backwards and for- 

 wards for three-quarter of the day ; foot people all round, heading foxes 

 back, and they never had a chance to go at all. At last, one got away 

 over the Common and through Lingmoor and back into Bishop's Hagg, 

 through it, and into Howlgate Head, where our hounds joined Lord 



