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end of it turned over the hill to Aske Moor ; 

 bearing to the left, he took a ring round 

 Applegarth, and returning to the Swale banks, 

 ran up them nearly to Marske. From here 

 he turned back, went through x\pplegarth, 

 and hounds marked him to ground in Whitley 

 Scar, after a very beautiful hunt of two and 

 a half hours. At times the running was very 

 severe. 



1847 — 48. Mr. Milbank was unlucky 

 enough to break his left arm when hunting 

 on the 10th November, and did not get out 

 again until the 17th January. 



Jealous riding even in these days appears 

 to have been not an unknown factor in the 

 spoihng of sport, as the following note in his 

 diary affirms. 



' ' Lost the fox, as the hounds were most 

 shamefully over-ridden by EVERY gentle- 

 man out, my own sons as bad as the rest.*' 



On the 11th February, hounds had a very 

 hard day all round Hutton Bonville, Danby 

 Wiske, Streatlam and Langton. The hunts- 

 man's horse was so done, he had to be taken 

 to Sir Maxwell Wallace's house at Ainderby 

 Steeple, and he dropped dead as soon as he 

 got there. Mr. Frederick Milbank 's horse, 

 which he was riding for the first time, fell 

 down dead in the first mile. 



1st May. Met at Wensley, and killed a 

 fox from Preston Scar. 



1848—49. On the 28th October, a fox 

 from the Crow Pasture Plantation at Thorp 

 Perrow, went through the dining room win- 



