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the 9th March became flooded, and during 

 the evening he had to get all his horses 

 removed, and quarter them out in adjacent 

 farms until the flood subsided. 



1881—82. On account of Major Dent not 

 being in very robust health, his kennel hunts- 

 man, T. Perry, hunted hounds from Sep- 

 tember until the end of October, when the 

 Master was again able to resume his duties. 

 Early in February he had the misfortune to 

 strain the muscles of his thigh very badly, 

 so decided that another season he would 

 employ a professional huntsman ; and engaged 

 Fred Holland, who was at this time first 

 whipper-in to Lord Middleton's hounds. 



This was a fairly good season, but there is 

 nothing very remarkable in the way of points 

 or length of runs to record. 



Hounds hunted seventy-eight days, and 

 killed twenty-three and a half brace of foxes. 



On the 21st October, a staunch friend to 

 fox-hunting passed away in the person of 

 Mr. Mark Milbank of Thorp Perrow ; who 

 was the first Master of the ''Bedale.'' 



One reads marvellous newspaper accounts 

 of runs nowadays, but twenty-five years ago 

 the reporter's pen seems to have been just 

 as nimble in its fancy. 



The following is a newspaper report of a 

 run from Uckerby, on the 2nd December. 



* ' Drew famed Uckerby Whin which ap- 

 pears now to be a misnomer, as the covert 

 consists of osiers, hazel and birch twigs, and an 



