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ah said ' Why, sir, poor men mun hev poor ways, 

 but mebbe ah'll talk ti ye a bit at neet.' We 

 fund i' Butcher Wood, an' there was syke a burst 

 o' music as you nivver heard. Well, we had a 

 desperate lang run, an' a bit afore we finished ah 

 was leaving me gentleman a bit. He said, 

 ' Huntsman, ah mun apologise for what ah said 

 this morning.' Ah sings oot, ' Ah ha'nt tahni ti 

 talk ye noo, there's 't hounds mahles afore us.' 

 Ah left him," concluded Bobby, " an' we killed 

 at Ampleforth, but he nivver gat there an' ah 

 nivver seed him agean." 



Mr. Barr showed some capital sport during his 

 mastership, which lasted four years, when failing 

 health caused him to resign. 



Nicholas Spink succeeded him, and notwith- 

 standing the difficulties with which he had to 

 contend in the shape of limited means, and what 

 was worse, an exceedingly limited supply of foxes, 

 he and his lieutenants, his brother Richard and 

 Bobby Dowson, gave every satisfaction in a 

 somewhat critical country and showed excellent 

 sport. 



We have been favoured with a few notes and 

 extracts from Bobby Dowson's diary, which we 

 give verbatim, premising that, as the reader will 

 probably have already gathered, a sharp burst is 

 not much appreciated in Bilsdale, and that a long 

 run at a hunting pace is with them the acme of 

 delight. We may mention by the way as an 



