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the Leeming Lane, not far from Clapham 

 Lodge, they winded a fox ; were on to the 

 line in a second, and whipper-in and horn 

 were useless. They crashed through the 

 grounds at Newton House, and so across to 

 the Wood, where I heard them. 



Needless to say my vexation was tem- 

 porary, and my admiration for the nose and 

 dash of the hounds, who would not be 

 stopped, unbounded. 



On the 2nd December there was a hard, 

 a long, and a good day's sport. 



Hounds met at Kiplin. Found in the Big 

 Wood and ran nearly up to Forest Farm, then 

 turned right-handed over the low ground 

 under Atlay Hill, over the Northallerton 

 and Cowton road into Pepper Arden Park ; 

 after dodging round this for a short time 

 the fox sought refuge under the kitchen 

 garden wall, where hounds killed him, after 

 a very quick twenty-five minutes. 



Mr. Stobart then suggested drawing the 

 rushy Bottoms on the north side of the Hall, 

 as a fox had often been seen there. ' ' The 

 oft' viewed ' ' was not in this case ' * absent," 

 but was on his ** tuft," and went away at 

 once, straight to Cowton Whin ; past that, 

 and on to Crossbills Plantation, from which 

 place he doubled back again, passing Cowton 

 Whin, nearly up to East Cowton ; then over 

 Cockleberry Farm to Dalton Whin. There 

 was no pause here, and hounds ran straight 

 on to the Halnaby coverts, on the north 

 side of which, after some time hunting 



