102 THE YORK AND AINSTY. 



There was a good deal of grief amongst the 

 Holderness men, to whom the big trappy fences 

 of the Ainsty were a novelty, and a special 

 correspondent who was present, remarked that 

 hats would be at a premium in Holderness when 

 he saw the battered Lincoln and Bennett's the 

 gallant members of that hunt sported at the end 

 of the day. 



Sir George Wombwell's first two seasons were 

 only moderate, and the first was marked by the 

 death of poor Will Powter, who was killed by a 

 fall from his horse at Askham Bogs early in the 

 cub-hunting season. No one saw the accident 

 happen, and all particulars are, therefore, merely 

 matter of conjecture. Powter had been over the 

 place, which was a gap with a half-open hurdle 

 stuck in it, several times in the course of the 

 morning, and it is supposed that when coming 

 through, the horse, a nervous irritable animal, 

 had been caught by something and kicked off 

 his rider, whose neck was dislocated. Powter 

 was a civil and obliging man, a good horseman, 

 and very attentive to his duties. His death was 

 a great loss to the country, for the other men 

 were all strangers to it, and his untimely fate, 

 following so closely after that of Sir Charles 

 Slingsby and his companions, cast quite 9 gloom 

 over the district. 



Collinson did not get on very well in his new 

 country, and left at the end of his second season. 



