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evening, and in doing so said ' * he would in 

 no wise connect him with hounds or horses, 

 or any other thing. He would give the 

 toast as that of Sir Tatton alone, whose 

 character stood so high as an Englishman, 

 and who ever evinced a high chivalrous 

 sense of honour from which no temptation, 

 however powerful, could induce him to 

 swerve." Sir Tatton thanked his hosts 

 and fellow guests in a short speech for the 

 kind way in which his health had been 

 drunk ; concluding his remarks by saying he 

 hoped they all might have as many good 

 days' hunting as he had had, and proposed 

 the health of his hosts, the members of the 

 York and Ainsty Hunt. 



Mr. Bateman replied to this, and proposed 

 the health of Lord Harewood and the Hare- 

 wood Hunt (which at this date represented 

 the Bramham Moor) . Lord William Thynne, 

 in the absence of Lord Harewood, replied 

 to this, and proposed the health of Lord 

 Hawke and the Badsworth. 



Lord Hawke, in response, said he was 

 delighted to see such a goodly array of jolly 

 sportsmen as were gathered together on this 

 occasion — their presence was an assurance 

 to him that fox-hunting must prosper in 

 Yorkshire. 



He proposed the health of the Holderness, 

 coupled with the name of Mr. Edward 

 Reynard (a joint Master). Mr. Reynard, in 

 responding to the toast, said the ' ' Hawk ' ' 

 had roused the * ' Fox ' * in his lair, and their 



