84 The Bedale Hounds, 1832-1908 



Hounds met at Thirsk Station. Found a 

 fox in Carlton Rush, ran through Bamlett's 

 Whin towards Topcliffe, and lost. Went 

 back, and found in Bamlett's Whin, but could 

 make nothing of this fox. Crossed the river 

 Swale and tried the Baldersby Coverts, with- 

 out finding. Went on to the Hutton Moor 

 coverts ; found in the High Covert, and 

 crossing the Leeming Lane ran by Windsor 

 Castle Inn towards Cundall, then making a 

 right-handed turn passed Kirby Windmill 

 and ran out of scent, heading towards the 

 Newby Hall coverts. 



Hutton Moor coverts were again drawn, 

 and furnished a fox, which ran a ring out 

 towards Blows Hall and back to the Moor, 

 but was pushed from there and ran past Dish- 

 forth to the Black Wood at Baldersby ; then 

 on to, but did not enter, Leckby Carr ; past 

 Cundall, and turned right-handed for Norton- 

 le-Clay pointing for Kirby Hill ; again he 

 changed his mind and returned on the north 

 side of Milby Whin, past Humburton, and 

 forward to Brafferton, where he got to ground 

 near the North Eastern Railway Bridge, 

 after a run of two hours and ten minutes. 



Mr. Booth, Mr. Clare Vyner, Mr. George 

 Peirson, Mr. Peter Stevenson, and one or two 

 more, were the only ones to see the end of 

 this very hard day. 



As it was then 7 p.m., Mr. Booth took the 

 hounds on to Newby Hall, where his first 

 whipper-in had already gone; gave horses 

 and hounds some gruel, and sent them off, a 



