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and I have no doubt as they become more 

 complete more foxes will escape from them. 

 Packs which are composed of hounds of various 

 kinds seldom run well together, nor do their 

 tongues harmonise, yet they generally, I think, 

 kill most foxes ; but I must confess that, unless I 

 like their style of killing them, whatever may be 

 their success, I cannot be completely satisfied/' 



I can well remember old Squire Milbank : in 

 fact he blooded me out on a pony with his hounds 

 when about five years old, not many yards from 

 the spot where the Bedale Hunt assemble in 

 the present day whenever they meet at Norton 

 Conyers once or twice in the course of every 

 winter. His Mastership seems to have been 

 successful, as the Hunt picture (of which the 

 engraving is so well known) bears the following 

 inscription : 



''Presented to Mark Milbank, Esq., 17th 

 December 1842, by members of the Bedale 

 Hunt and other gentlemen, at the annual Hunt 

 Dinner given by him as Master of the Bedale 

 Hounds." 



Portraits of the following gentlemen appear 

 in the picture : Mr. Milbank and his hunt servants, 

 Lord Zetland, Duke of Leeds, Duke of Cleveland, 

 Sir Bellingham Graham, Colonel Pepper Arden, 

 Mr. Sergeantson, Hon. Sackville Lane Fox, Hon. 



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