THE YORK AND AINSTY. Ill 



On the following day they had three good 

 runs in the Ainsty country, with blood each 

 time ; and on the Thursday of the same week 

 they had a racing thirty-three minutes to ground, 

 from Ripley to Studley Royal. There was not 

 the slightest semblance of a check, and the fox 

 would not have lived other five minutes. 



But, perhaps, the best run these had was on 

 Monday, March 26th. They found in Suet Carrs, 

 and ran a ring through Oak Wood, and then back 

 through Haxby Wood, and raced their fox by 

 Strensall and over the Common. There was a 

 check at the edge of the common, but Wilson 

 soon hit it off, and they ran slower, but still at a 

 holding pace past Flaxton and Lillinghall, through 

 Sand Hutton to Stittenham, They pressed their 

 fox through Stittenham Wood into Castle Howard 

 Park, where the deer foiled the ground and 

 caused a long check. Patience, however, was 

 rewarded, and the hounds carried the line beauti- 

 fully through the deer, about as fine a bit of 

 hunting as could be witnessed. They then ran 

 through the chain of big woods, and, forcing the 

 fox out at the lower end, rattled him merrily 

 across the open, and pulled him down near 

 Slingsby, after a run of four hours and ten 

 minutes. The Bulmer Beck at Stittenham was 

 a bumper this time, but seven adventurous spirits 

 went at it as though it had been a four foot drain, 

 Wilson being the only one who got over without 



