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concludes by saying : ''I trust that our 

 excellent Master will receive such encour- 

 agement as will cause him to reconsider his 

 determination of giving up the hounds." 



On the 11th Februar>% 1863, hounds took 

 a fox into the Bilsdale country. 



Met at York Gate, but did not find a fox 

 between Baldersby and the Thirsk coverts. 



At last one was found in a small spinney 

 near Lord Cathcart's tile yards at Wood 

 End, on the west of the railway Hne. He 

 crossed the railway, passed the Lodge gates, 

 up the avenue to Wood End and pointed for 

 Thirsk, but turning northwards went by 

 Thornton-le-Street village, as if Cotcliffe 

 Wood was his destination. Being headed 

 near Knayton, he turned back from there 

 over the Upsall pastures, through Upsall 

 gorse, then turned up the hill to Woolmoor 

 Common, from here through Mr. Elsey's 

 Plantations, and finally got to ground in 

 Shotwood Bank, after a very severe hunt of 

 fifty-five minutes. The writer of this account 

 says ' * On rising the hill from Upsall, the 

 ' field ' was much in difficulty. Horses 

 pumped, riders off, girths slacked, heads to 

 the wind.'' 



On the 5th December, 1866, there was a 

 very fast forty-five minutes from Uckerby 

 WHiin. Ran first across to Halnaby, then 

 bore right-handed past Clervaux Castle, 

 straight to Croft, where hounds ran into their 

 fox in front of the Archdeacon's house. 



A correspondent of *' Bell's Life" re- 



