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Gate, straight to Withernwick coverts leaving 

 Melmerby village to the right. From With- 

 ernwick, across to the Willow garth below 

 Nunwick, through it past Hutton Conyers, 

 and over the hill as if for Sharow ; but 

 turning right-handed from here, hounds ran 

 into their fox on the banks of the Yore, close 

 to Ripon station railway bridge. 



Hunting ceased on the 25th April. There 

 was no blank day, and fifteen brace of 

 foxes were killed. 



1870 — 71. Among the entry of this year, 

 was an extraordinary speedy and bold dog 

 called 'Singer' (by 'The Bramham Stormer' 

 out of 'Charity'). 



One day when drawing Hutton Moor gorse 

 covert, a fox jumped up in view of the pack. 

 ' Singer ' at once shot out from the rest and 

 killed him. A second fox was almost im- 

 mediately found in the same gorse, and again 

 ' Singer ' forged to the front, but as the fox 

 soon after being put up, slipped through a stiff 

 bottomed fence, he was a little more handi- 

 capped in his ** course." He was, however, 

 quite equal to the occasion, and raced this 

 fox down and killed him. 



A third fox was found ; and after about an 

 hour's hunt, hounds ran from scent to view 

 (at Norton Conyers), and 'Singer' again 

 distinguished himself. Leaving the rest of 

 the pack, he coursed and killed this third fox, 

 in the sunk fence just below the Fish Pond. 

 On account of his excessive speed he was 

 included in the draft, but for some reason 



