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generally goes away pretty quickly, and a hunts- 

 man has to be smart to get away on good terms 

 with him. Hutton, RufForth, Hessay, and Ked 

 House are also favourite fixtures, and there is 

 some nice country about Knaresbrough, which as 

 a rule rides rather lighter than the Ainst3^ It 

 is a trying country for hounds as well as hunts- 

 man, and big stout hounds are necessary, whilst 

 good noses are indispensable. 



The foxes are stout too, and generally take a 

 lot of killing. During February and March, 

 1888, they had some wonderful sport, good old- 

 fashioned runs, foxes making for distant points 

 and nearly succeeding in reaching them. On 

 Monday, February Gth, they found in Haxby 

 Wood, and ran at a great pace by Wigginton, 

 leaving Haxby to the right ; and passing Oak 

 Wood to the left they rattled their fox past 

 Strensall village, and over Strensall Common to 

 Scorner. Then bearing to the left they ran by 

 Flaxton, and passing by the station, which they 

 left a little on their right hand, they ran jjast 

 Lillinghall. They then ran to the right of Sheriff 

 Hutton Wood, and by Thornton, pointing for 

 Stittenham, but turned to the right and crossed 

 the low country to Foston, and over Bulmer 

 Beck nearly to Castle Howard, where they 

 killed, after a capital run of an hour-and-a-half. 

 It was a ten mile point, and thirteen as hounds 

 ran. 



