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enthusiasm for an hour at a time, took place in 

 1840, and George Bell declares it to have been 

 one of the best runs he ever saw. 



They found in Arnclifte Wood, and ran along 

 the banks to Ingleby Park. The fox passed 

 through the Park Wood, and pointed for Bays- 

 dale, but was headed by something, and ran by 

 Greenhow and Botton Head, along the hills to 

 Arnclifte Wood. The hounds pressed him out 

 over the top at Arnclifte, by Wild Goose Nest 

 and Slapestones where they pulled him down 

 after a run of three hours and twenty minutes, 

 over as rough a country as can well be found in 

 Yorkshire. The distance was computed to be 

 between twenty and thirty miles. 



Bobby Dowson has been whip for fifty years, 

 and, although he has now resigned that office, is 

 as keen as ever. He is descended from H. 

 Forster, who was the Duke's huntsman, and since 

 that time one of the family has always been either 

 huntsman or whip, or taken an active part in the 

 management of the hunt. As may be imagined 

 Bobby is full of hunting lore and anecdote, and it 

 was a pleasant afternoon we spent in his company 

 and George Bell's, listening to their old world 

 stories of hunting under difficulties. They are 

 eminently hound men, but would most probably 

 judge a hound from rather a different standpoint 

 to the fashionable standard of the present day. 

 We do not suppose they would be particularly 



