CHAPTER IV. 



BILSDALE AND SINNINGTON 



Rough Hunting Countries — Yorkshire Love of 

 Sport — Bilsdale — Buckingham Stone — ' Hunter' 

 Garbutt — Tate and Leng — A Moonlight Hunt — 

 George Bell — Bobby Dowson — A Visitor — Some 

 Bilsdale Hunting Songs — The Sinnington — The 

 Duke of Buckingham — The Duncombes — The Sin- 

 nington Hunt Club — John Kendall — Jamie Golden 

 — Mr. Kendall, of Ness — Mr. T. M. Kendall — 

 Jack Parker — A Good Run with a Curious Finish 

 — Mr. Parrington's Mastership — The Muscoates 

 Whin Run — Mr. Lesley — The Purchase of "Tip." 



Saddle up you horses and make ready for the fray. 



Bilsdale Hunting Sonrj. 



Perhaps in no counties in England is fox- 

 hunting so enthusiastically carried on, under 

 what would in many places be called dis- 

 advantages, than in Yorkshire and Devonshire. 

 The only disadvantage under Avhich a country 

 can labour, in the opinion of the natives of these 

 countries, is a scarcity of foxes ; and even where 

 foxes are not so plentiful as they should be, the 

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