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away from here, ran past Howgrave, by 

 Thornborough, past Langwith House,between 

 Horse Close Wood and Camp Hill Low Wood 

 to Allinson's Brick Yards — west of Carthorpe 

 village. Turned from here past the north 

 end of Carthorpe, up to Elam House on the 

 Leeming Lane ; running parallel to which 

 for some distance he then turned back 

 towards Norton Conyers, and leaving Kirk- 

 lington village and Bury Hills on the right, 

 touched Howgrave, and so back to Guy's 

 Whin, one hour and twenty-seven minutes, 

 without any check. 



Hounds then hunted round and about 

 Norton Conyers for another two hours, and 

 eventually killed a fox on the east side of the 

 house, between the Park wall and the rail- 

 way ; after a total hunt of three hours and 

 thirty-five minutes. This was the first fox 

 which, when hunting the hounds himself, 

 the Duke had killed, and Sir Reginald 

 Graham had a stone put up to mark the 

 place where hounds had pulled him down. 



A story concerning this stone, and the 

 second whipper-in, during the following 

 season, is to be found in Sir Reginald 

 Graham's ''Foxhunting Recollections.*'* 



1900—01. On the 12th December there 

 was a good hunt, hounds meeting at Slen- 

 ingford Park. 



Found in Ellerton Banks, and ran very 

 quickly across the Laver nearly up to 



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