128 BILSDALE AND SINNINGTON. 



To Cold Kirby and Flaxendale, 



Aud Scotton town also ; 

 Through Datic pasture and Noble Duke 



This valiant fox did go. 



To Tom Smith Cross and the High Wood 



And Border Wood full fast, 

 By Harland Abbey and Crook Hill 



And Water Gates he passed. 



Through Newborough Park to Pound Hill Wood 



Then Owston Wood he found ; 

 All his skill he tried, and he'd surely have died, 



If he hadn't gone to ground. 



Forty-five miles it was our chase, 



We ran it in three hours space 

 Our hunters true that did pursue, 



I name them everyone. 



Mr. Walkington on his chesnut mare, 



Charles Harrison on his bay, 

 Johnny Bulman and Leonard Heseltine, 



Peacock and Clark were there. 



So sportsman all, your glasses fill, 



And let the toast go round, 

 " Five couple of bounds of high degree, 



That viewed the fox to ground." 



Forty-five miles in three hours is rather a 'tall 

 order/ as the Yankees would call it ; and it 

 would be utterly impossible for any hounds 

 to go over the ground described in the song in that 

 thiie if they went the nearest way, and if they did 

 this the distance is short of what is stated. 

 Every allowance should be made for the fact 

 that the song was handed down orally for many 



