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over the country. A very fine morning and capital scenting. 

 Had 18^ couples of the small pack out, and every hound there 

 to eat him. All worked hard for the fox. Rode "Lady 

 Bennett" to the river, and was never more charmingly carried; 

 afterwards " Wasp." A glass of sherry at Mr. Garbutt's on 

 our way home wound up this capital day. 



Feby. 7th, 1863. — The Kennels: Found in Surtees' 

 Plantations, ran very fast to Fettles Scar, where our fox went to 

 ground. After trying round Sockburn and Mr. Wilkinson's 

 cover blank, we trotted away to Fighting Cocks, where " Blem- 

 ish " presently told us he was at home. With all the pack at 

 his brush he broke away at the north-east corner, and setting his 

 head straight went to Fox Hill cover. Here he hung a trifle, 

 and a fresh fox went away, and at the same time he bolted and 

 went direct on to Barker's Plantations, which he entered at 

 the west side and left at the north-east corner, then away 

 forward till headed by some ploughmen, and then turned across 

 the lane to Sandy Lees cover, through it, then forward to 

 Oxeye cover, through it, across the lane, and away pointing 

 for Red Marshall, but turning to the left he ran up wind to 

 within a field of Longstaffe's Whin, then again turned to the 

 left and back to Barker's Plantations. After two or three 

 turns in it he again left at the same point as before, running 

 north for some distance and then turning eastward. Went on 

 in a tolerable straight line, passed Red Marshall and Carlton 

 on the right to Mr. Grey's Plantations, near Norton Junction. 

 Here he again turned to the right, and in a second attempt 

 (after being headed in the first) crossed the Stockton Lane, 

 and then shaped his course for Hartburn cover, which he 

 passed within a dozen yards, on his left, then away westward 

 across the back lane pointing for Elton, but again changing his 

 course he turned to the right and away northward to Oxeye 



