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days. Later on matters improved and he showed 

 some good sport, hunting them himself until he 

 retired in the summer of 1878. After his time 

 there were many Masters of the Bedale, including 

 Major Dent, Mr. G. W. Elliot, M.P., Captain 

 Wilson Todd, and the Duke of Leeds. To all 

 of these Fred Holland was huntsman, a keen 

 and cheerful man much liked by the farmers, 

 who retired in 1902, after twenty years' service, 

 with a testimonial of about £1000, and went to 

 live at Masham, where he recently died. 



The Duke of Leeds hunted the country 

 regardless of expense for six seasons, from 1898 

 to 1904. I think the best day which I saw in 

 his time was on the 24th January 1900, when he 

 was hunting the hounds himself. They met at 

 Norton Conyers and found a real good fox in 

 Guy's Whin; ran by Nosterfield nearly to Low 

 Park ; then to the right, crossing the Bedale 

 Road between Carthorpe and Burneston, up to 

 Leeming Lane, where he was headed and turned 

 short back, leaving Kirkington on his right, down 

 to Sutton Howgrave across Parkfield Farm to 

 the covert where he was found. Luckily they 

 did not change there, and he went away over the 

 South Park at Norton, where I saw him nearly 

 done, but lie managed to jump the high wall 

 near our Ripon Lodge gates. Only about half 



