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Wednesday, April 2nd, 1818. " We having 

 twelve couples of hounds, and John Rickaby five 

 couples and a half. Found a fox in Newton Wood, 

 ran by the Stell side nearly to Upsal, where he was 

 headed at the Stockton road. Then to Nunthorpe, 

 and turned and w^ent by Brass Castle, down 

 below Newham ; then turned and went below 

 Sunny Cross nearly to Tanton, then near Newby, 

 where the hounds ran up to him and killed him 

 in a wheat field, where he could not make a trot. 

 A burst of forty-five minutes without a check, 

 Rickaby the brush. The Doctor,''' James Andrew, 

 John Andrew, and Rickaby's nephew well up. 

 Nine couple of our hounds up at the death 

 and two couple of Rickaby 's. N.B. — Rickaby 

 rode well. The absent hounds, with Richard 

 Scarth, W. Coates, Isaac Booth, and Mason 

 Williamson, being thrown off (query, out), ranged 

 Mr. Jackson's plantations and found a bitch fox, 

 and ran her for three hours very hard to Wilton 

 Wood and Court Green and back several times, 

 until both horses and hounds were tired when 

 they lost her in Mr. Jackson's plantations." 



One more extract from old John Andrew's 

 Journal and we must leave it however reluctantly. 



Monday, December 28th, 1818. "Disappointed 



of a bag fox which some one had stolen from Mr. 



Jackson's shepherd, and having a large field, we 



tried Eston Whin blank, and found in a small 



■■'• Dr. Mackreth, of Skelton, a keen s23ortsman. 



