42 More early sport. 



Of Heron's Mill, and Seamer Carr, 



And Gill of Fanny Bell. 



And when each old asylum tried, 



Along the Leven's wooded side, 



Oppressed by instant foe ; 



He fled the vale where Neville's art 



Can to the matron's web impart 



The whiteness of the snow.* 



And now unchecked his course is made 



To Arncliflfe's deep sequester'd shade, 



Where mazy woods and frequent fence 



May foil the hounds instinctive sense; 



Where the dark ground through winter's day 



Is seldom warmed by solar ray. 



But headed back by sudden fear, 



W^ith failing strength and danger near, 



He sought his former haunts to gain 



And safety find in Rudby's glen. 



But vain his wiles — the cautious hound 



W^ith ardour tries the tainted ground ; 



And soon we heard the fatal knell 



In echo's haunts where Reynard fell ! 



Season i8ig-20. 



Tuesday, 2nd November, 1819 : Threw off in Ravenscar 

 and lost near Arncliffe Wood after a middling good run. 

 Rickaby's hounds afterwards ran the fox into a house at Kirby 

 and killed him. 



[Note. — Rickaby (whose proper name was Rickitson) kept 

 hounds at Whorl Hill Farm, between Faceby and Swainby, 

 from about 1816 to 1825. He hunted a considerable part of 

 what is now the Cleveland West country, and for a time was 

 Master of the Bilsdale country.] 



Friday, 5th : Threw off at Beverley Wood and found a 

 brace of foxes, and killed an old bitch fox near Smeaton after 

 running two rounds by Entercommon, Stones Rigg, through 

 Beverley and Capt. Hewgill's Plantations ; good scent ; 

 hounds chased hard. 



Tuesday, gth : Threw off at Newsham banks and found, 



* Much bleaching was done at Crathorne, Kildale and Osmotherley ; hence the allusion. 

 See Life in a Yorkshire Village, by the present author. 



