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Nov. 30th.-~ Riccal Bridge ; 21 couples ; found at once at bottom 

 end of Riccaldale, and ran a circle out eastwards, and then back into 

 Riccaldale and away to Scadale, and then on into Carlton Parks ; 

 away again over Ashdale into Collier Hagg, on, and after a turn or two 

 up and down, away on over Roppa Moor, and on down the hill away for 

 Bilsdale, through Birch Wood into Bilsdale, on over the high-road 

 and the Seph river into the woods on the other side of the dale, and up 

 the hill on the far side. Hounds ran their fox almost in view up to a 

 farm and then back again into the valley, where they got off the lino 

 somehow, and we found them so when we got up, and although I cast 

 all round, and waited about a good bit, could get never on the line 

 again, and had to go home. A lot of snow had fallen, and it was 

 freezing hard all day ; a rare scent ! Most unlucky not to catch him ! 

 Two hours 15 minutes. A Seven mile point. 



This must have been a splendid moorland run, over, 

 perhaps, some of the roughest country in Yorkshire. On the 

 very next day, Dec. 4th, another noteworthy run took place. 

 The fixture was at Spaunton village, and after a somewhat 

 long draw : 



A fox was found in Cooper's covert, and ran nicely over 

 to Riseborough Hagg, through it and over the railway ; over 

 Wrelton Cliff, and on nearly to Stabler's Wood ; he turned 

 sharp to the right, however, and crossed the double-dyke and 

 went over the hill to Cass Hagg ; through it and Wrelton Wood 

 Scent was much worse in the high country than in the low, and we 

 could only walk on after him to Pickering Haugh. Here he had waited 

 for us, and hounds got away on better terms with him and ran over the 

 ridge into Pickering Parks ; over the Whitby and Pickering railway, 

 and Pickering Beck, and up the opposite line, and away over the open 

 to Kingthorpe. He turned sharp right-handed at Scalla Moor House, 

 and went into Howldale ; through the covert and away for Thornton 

 Dale. Just short of the woods he turned south, and went into the low 

 country, and over the Scarborough and Pickering railway, along the 

 line side for some way, and then south again to California Farm. Turning 

 right handed, he crossed the Malton and Pickering Railway at the 

 Bull crossing. Scent was very much better in the low country, and 

 hounds ran up to their fox and were close at him ; he turned short 

 back, and re-crossed the Malton and Pickering railway and road, where 

 the 4-17 train to Malton ran into them, and separated fox and hounds, 

 killing " Pastime (a hound which, according to the diaries, had done 

 much good work and could carry on a cold line wheu almost every 

 other had failed), " Donovan " and " Racer." They ran on in the 

 dark over Scarborough and Pickering railway, and over the road from 

 Pickering to Thornton, where the fox got away in the dark. The 



