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horses. They found in Ness Hagg and ran up and 

 down Kilton wood once or twice and then broke 

 by Moorshohii, and crossed Stanghow Wood on 

 to Stanghow Moor. Here the fox took the top 

 of a wall for seven hundred yards, both sides of 

 the wall being level with snow. They ran to 

 ground in Skelton Warren, just an hour and hfty 

 minutes after finding. Of course a dig was at 

 once resorted to, and the fox was eventually got 

 out, and killed close by. The drifts in many 

 places were fully five feet deep, and the horse- 

 men had to go round by the roads. 



Perhaps one of the severest days ever seen 

 in Cleveland took place on Friday, February 

 12th, 18G9. The meet was at Marton, and the 

 sport with the Cleveland having been exception- 

 ally good, a large number of strangers were 

 present. The hounds found at once in Tollesby 

 Orchard, and ran a fast ring nearly to Middles- 

 brough, and then by Newham Whin to Seamer, 

 Hilton Wood, Middleton, Fanny Bell's Gill, 

 Crathorne, Hutton Rudby and Trenholm Bar 

 were all touched, and once a fox ran nearly back 

 to Newham Whin. They changed foxes at least 

 three times, but in all probability they changed 

 oftener, and during the latter part of the run 

 hounds had it all their own way, the small 

 remnant of the large field only occasionally 

 getting a glimpse of them. It seemed as if they 

 would go on for ever. Men hung together and 



