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which he turned left-handed to Exelby, went 

 over the Beck towards Firby Hall, again bore 

 left-handed for the Low Coverts at Thorp 

 Perrow ; before he could reach which, hounds 

 ran into him in the Park. Forty- two minutes, 

 very fast. The season finished on the 9th 

 April. There were five blank days, and 

 eighteen and a half brace of foxes were 

 killed. 



1877 — 78. Although this was a good 

 season's sport, twenty-eight and a half brace 

 of foxes being killed, and there being no 

 blank day ; I find only one run, which I 

 think is worth recording. Found at Uckerby 

 Whin, ran across to Halnaby and from there 

 to Clervaux Castle ; then on through Allan's 

 Whin pointing for (Jukle ? ?), being headed 

 at this point, the fox turned back through 

 the gardens at Halnaby and ran almost the 

 identical line back to Uckerby Whin. There 

 was no pause here, and hounds pushed on 

 with their fox up to Scorton station, through 

 Crossbills covert, over the Atlay Hill and 

 Scorton road, past the Forest Farm, and just 

 short of Whitwell, ran into him after a 

 capital hunt of one hour and fifty minutes. 

 At the beginning of this season Alfred 

 Thatcher returned to the Brocklesby, suc- 

 ceeding Nimrod Long as huntsman to this 

 pack of Hounds ; and Mr. Booth engaged T. 

 Perry from the Vale of White Horse in his 

 place. He began Hfe in Lord Poltimore's 

 service, and was for four seasons a whipper- 

 in to Lord Shannon. 



