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Such a time they kept at it, and such was the speed 

 They quickly discovered a fox, t'was indeed : 

 Who gallantly leaving the woods of Thorp Perrow, | 

 To Watlass he sped, with the speed of an arrow. 

 So close were the hounds that he could not delay, 

 But over Snape Park he directed his way. 

 Where finding the pack still hard at his brush 

 He lept the park wall with a terrible " rush." 

 And crossing the road towards Masham proceeded; 

 But disliking the country, or perhaps he was headed. 

 Turning short to the left came to Aldburgh Hall, 

 Thence through Binsoe and Peter Wood arrived at 



Hackfall. 

 Where either disdaining the earths that were open, 

 Or feehng his strength unimpared and unbroken, 

 He still rattled on, 'til to Tanfield he came, 

 Tho' dirty and draggled, yet his pace was the same 

 iti * * * 



Here after a chase of two hours and more 

 The hounds they were stopped — what a terrible bore. 

 From a M.S. H. de la Poer Beresford, 



1838. 



and no doubt influenced by Lord Darlington, 

 he kindly stepped into his father-in-law's 

 ** southern hunting shoes.''* 



The country provided some subscription 

 towards the expenses, but what sum I am 

 unable to ascertain. 



He commenced the formation of his pack 

 of hounds by purchasing about twenty 

 couples from Scotland, was given some of 

 the ' ' Raby ' ' hounds, getting in addition 

 other drafts. There were some kennels at 



X Hounds changed from a hare to a fox, somewhere between 

 Firby and Thorp Perrow, No one knew exactly where. 



* Mr. Milbank married in 1817, Lady Augusta, second daughter 

 of William Henry, 1st Duke of Cleveland. 



