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the spot. I have seen many ways tried, 

 more often unsuccessful than the reverse. 

 Mr. Booth mentions one which he used with 

 advantage — and which to me is novel : that 

 is, to fire three or four cartridges, with powder 

 only, down the culvert or drain. A gun and 

 cartridges are generally pretty handy. 



On the 19th November, there was a good 

 and hard day. After a two hours hunt from 

 Bamlett's Whin, killing their fox near the 

 house at Baldersby Park, hounds found in 

 Busby Stoop Brickyard Plantation, and 

 running by Sand Hutton village, to the south 

 of Carlton village, through Carlton Rush, 

 reached Topcliffe station. Here the fox was 

 probably headed, as he returned on the west 

 of the Topcliffe and Busby Stoop road to the 

 covert where found ; then up the Swale banks 

 to what is now Sand Hutton Whin, back from 

 this point to the New Whin at Baldersby, 

 through Ainderby Quernhow to the Holme 

 coverts and on to Pickhill village. Turning 

 from here, he crossed the Teeming Tane, 

 straight to Carthorpe ; through Camp Hill and 

 Kirklington Woods to Kirklington village, 

 where he got into some farm buildings, and 

 as it was by now quite dark, Mr. Booth had 

 most reluctantly to leave him. 

 ' On the 14th January, Mr. Booth describes 

 the following as the straightest and quickest 

 * ' forty minutes ' ' he ever saw. Found in 

 the New Whin at Baldersby, ran past Howe, 

 the Holme coverts, Pickhill Wood, Smear- 

 holmes and Gatenby Woods, to Newton 



