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him nearly to Grafton and round again to 

 Ellingthorpe, when he crossed the river 

 almost at the same place as the original fox 

 from Baldersby. 



Hounds were stopped and taken back to 

 the run fox, which had been seen dead beat in 

 the Park at Boroughbridge Hall. They hit 

 off his line, and after running a short distance 

 down the river bank rolled him over, fox 

 and hounds all tumbling into the river. The 

 fox floated a short distance but eventually 

 sank, so hounds were unfortunately deprived 

 of their well-earned blood. An onlooker swam 

 into the river to try and recover the fox, but 

 the water was so cold he had to give up the 

 attempt. 



On 24th January, there was a capital 

 gallop from Wild Wood. 



The fox went away on the south side up to 

 Finghall, then past the station there, through 

 the bottom of Ruswick Gill over Newton-le- 

 Willows Bottoms, past Grazing Nook Farm 

 due north, by Hesselton and Cote House to 

 the east end of Thornhill's Whin ; from here 

 he bore rather westward, leaving Scotton 

 whin on the right, over Newfound-England 

 Gill, on to Hauxwell Moor. His strength 

 was now faihng, and he doubled back over 

 Laver Gill, up Newfound-England Gill on to 

 the Richmond Road, where hounds ran into 

 him a short distance from the four cross- 

 roads, close to Barden village ; after a bril- 

 liant gallop of sixty-two minutes. There 

 was no check, hounds having the best of it 

 the whole way. 



