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village ; bearing right-handed from here, 

 he went down the banks of the Wiske, past 

 the east side of Danby Grange, and was 

 marked to ground there, after a very fast 

 twenty-five minutes. A four mile point. 



Another fox was found in Felgill Moor, but 

 the covert was so thick, it was some time 

 before hounds could force him away. He 

 eventually broke towards Kiplin, and ran over 

 the Forest Farm ; taking a right-hand turn 

 from here he went up Atlay Hill, crossed the 

 road into the Park at Pepper Arden, on into 

 Pepper Bottoms and crossed Pepper Stell, as 

 if for East Cowton. He was headed short of 

 the village, and turned back towards Birkby, 

 then across into Reedholmes, where a fresh fox 

 was on foot. Hounds stuck to the hunted 

 one, and ran along the Wiske side up to the 

 Crow Wood at Hutton Bonville, where the fox 

 crossed the Wiske, ran past the Church, over 

 the railway, to the Old Whin. Time up to this 

 point, one and a half hours. Here, in this 

 "home for foxes,'* hounds unluckily got 

 on to a fresh one, and ran a sharp ring of half 

 an hour out towards Yafforth and back to 

 Danby Wiske village — to ground. As the 

 run fox had been seen * ' dead beat ' ' in the 

 Old Whin at Hutton Bonville, the Master took 

 hounds back there, on the chance of well- 

 earned blood. Soon the bitches "feather." 

 They speak, they are all together — all is well ! 



They hunt slowly but beautifully over some 

 strong cold plough land, up to, and through, 

 the Plantation bordering the Northallerton 



