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fast runs. Killed two. Rode " Samson " [added later] . 

 Blank day at Cleasby. 



17th do. : Met Hurworth at Neasham. Found near 

 Cookson's, but he was headed backwards and forwards by foot 

 people and all chance of sport spoiled. Bad day. 



24th do. : Met Hurworth at Dalton Wood. Drew D.W. 

 blank. Jimmy Cookson whipped up a fox in the boundary 

 hedge which, after a ring, ran to Beverley Wood, from whence 

 another fox went away by Hornby Grange, across Worsall 

 Moor, past Farthingside covert and Over Dinsdale, crossed the 

 river near the hotel and went to ground in Lozzy's Whin. 

 Very good from the Hornby road and fast. 



29th do. : Saw Lord Zetland's harriers at Middleton 

 Tyas. Hounds too fat. Poor day's sport. Rode James 

 Wharton's chestnut mare. 



Jany. 28th, 1843: Hurworth at Lovesome Hill. Found 

 at Deighton and had a very fast burst to Harlsey, where a 

 check took place. He was hit off again and killed in Silton 

 Wood, beyond Thimbleby, passing Foxton Wood and Kibbeck 

 Mill. I hour and 10 minutes. 



Feby. gth, 1843 : Hurworth a bye day at Entercommon. 

 Found a fox in Beverley Wood, which went away over a 

 beautiful line of country, but unluckily the hounds could not be 

 got out of covert till too far gone. Drew Beverley Wood again, 

 Allan's Plantations, Eryholm, Rockcliffe Scarr blank. Tried 

 to dig (horrible dictu) out a fox from a drain, during which 

 process I left them. Rode "The Nob." 



25th do. : Hurworth at Neasham. Found in Lozzy's 

 Whin. He went thro' Grey's Plantations, past Pease's, across 

 Hurworth Moor, over the railway to Blackbanks, where he 

 crossed the Skerne, thro' Allan's Whin (or past it as no one 



