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[Note. — This point is not so great as the place-names 

 would suggest. Coming out of Thimbleby Wood, passing the 

 locale of the now reservoir, and bearing away by Black Hamble- 

 ton and Hawnby to Arden, hounds would not travel more 

 than six or seven miles as the crow flies. Nevertheless, Messrs. 

 Wilkinson and their friends were a longer ride from the kennels 

 than most hunting men would like to face in these days of 

 motor cars and hunt " specials."] 



November 2nd, 1802 : Earthed one fox in Black Hamble- 

 ton, and killed or earthed another from Arncliffe. 



November 30th, 1804 : Killed a brace of foxes from Spring 

 Wood, one after a capital run of fourteen miles over the moors, 

 joining Kildale ; the other at Roseberry by Tunner Bath. 



[Note. — This must have been a really great day. Spring 

 Wood is near Silton, and so far removed from Kildale that I 

 venture to say if we called at a Silton farm, and asked the way 

 to that village, or, on the other hand, asked one of Mr. Robert 

 Turton's Kildale tenants the way to Silton, neither could 

 direct us.] 



December 13th, 1804: Killed a fox near Norton, after a 

 three hours' run of thirty-five miles from Blackbanks. 

 [Copy of a letter addressed to Lord Darlington.'] 



" Hurworth, January 30th, 1805. 

 My Lord : 



Mr. Meynell yesterday inclosed me a letter from Sir Henry 

 Vane Tempest, in which I was surprised to find the Hurworth 

 Hunt charg'd with offering two guineas for a fox that was 

 lately run as a bag by Mr. Hubback's Harriers, I therefore 

 take the earliest opportunity of declaring to your lordship upon 

 my honour that I did not even know the fox alluded to was 



