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out of work and in a very distressful condition. How 

 they could exist much longer without relief he was 

 unable to say. 



On being asked what steps he had taken to secure 

 employment, said he had been to Newmarket in hopes 

 of gaining admittance into the stables, and finding the 

 winner of the Grand National. On another occasion 

 he had attended a pigeon shoot, with the object of 

 picking up a little money, but was not successful owing 

 to an outsider winning, against whom he had fielded 

 heavily. Did not think much of pigeon shoots as a 

 sport or means of livelihood, all he got out of it was a 

 few frozen pigeons. 



Witness then began to use abusive language against 

 the weather, and was ordered to withdraw. 



Captain David A. G. Lascelles said he acted as 

 Secretary to the Bedale Hunt, and had been out of 

 employment for nine weeks, during which time he had 

 been much annoyed by many poultry claims which he 

 was quite unable to pay. He owned a considerable 

 number of horses, and he regularly attended every 

 meet of the Bedale Hounds, and always stayed out till 

 the hounds went home, and was therefore in regular 

 employment until frozen out. 



On being asked what steps he had taken to obtain 

 work, said he had spent most of his time in Bedale 

 Market Place, discussing the situation with his fellow 

 workmen and watching the weathercock. He had made 

 two excursions into the West-country on hearing that 

 work was to be obtained, in which he was to a certain 

 extent successful, getting two engagements to play 

 hockey. 



Fred Holland said he acted in the capacity of 

 Huntsman, and corrobated the evidence of The Master. 

 Said his duties as huntsman principally were to say 

 — " Yoi Yover " and " Pull up," to keep his hounds 

 as far away as possible from the members of the Hunt, 

 and to please everybody. On being asked what steps 

 he intended taking to sustain himself and his large 

 family, remarked, " By Gow, I don't know. I never 

 seed nothing like this afore. ' ' 



