84 A HUNTING CATECHISM 



get near ; they often, indeed, wait there till the 

 hounds get a view. 



As an instance of what a wild stag is capable 

 of, the account of a run which took place in 

 Yorkshire on March 8, 1865, may be read with 

 interest. The stag probably had escaped from 

 a park, but he had been living in the district 

 for a considerable time, first in the neighbourhood 

 of Castle Howard, and then round Newburgh 

 Park, and to all intents and purposes was a wild 

 stag. At that time there was in existence a 

 pack of staghounds, formerly harriers, that were 

 kept by some very sporting farmers in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Easingwold, and I am indebted to 

 Captain Frank Reynard for the following ac- 

 count : — 



^' ' Lord Nunburnholme,' so christened on the 

 9th of March, 1865, was first hunted by the 

 Easingwold Staghounds on the 25th of February 

 that year, when he was found on Yearsley Moor, 

 between Gilling Castle and Newburgh Park, and 

 hunted down to Bossall wood, close to Aldby 

 Park, in Lord Middleton's country, after a run of 

 about twenty-five miles. 



" It was a keen morning on the 8th of March, 

 with snow visible on the tops of the wolds, and 

 the hounds having laid out overnight at Lobster 

 House (on the York and Malton road), found the 

 stag in Bossall wood, which went away past 

 "Willow Bridge, by Crambe, to Kirkham Abbey 

 Station ; being headed here he turned into 

 Howsham wood, and from there ran through 

 Westow churchyard, on to Eddlethorpe, past 

 Burythorpe, and so to Birdsall. From here 

 he turned, leaving Wharram on the left, to 

 Burdale, where he endeavoured to take shelter 



