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in a shed on Mr. North's farm, but being driven 

 out by two cur-dogs, he went up the Fridaythorpe 

 Valley ; then heading for Sledmere he reached 

 Fimber Station, where the snow lay three inches 

 deep, and went over Huggate Wold, past Warter, 

 and was eventually taken at Mr. Wilberfoss 

 Hornby's farm on Nunburnholme Wold. Time 

 of the run, four hours and thirty-five minutes. 

 The distance is put at about forty miles. 



" The names of those who were present when 

 the deer was taken are as follows, only seven 

 remaining out of a field of three hundred — and 

 all members of the Easingwold Hunt : 



" Mr. John Batty (Master of the Staghounds), 

 Thornton Baxby, Easingwold. 



" Mr. Robert Batty, Tollerton. 



" Mr. John Cotes, Peep o'Day, Easingwold. 



" Mr. James Batty, Stillington. 



" Mr. Thomas Batty, Aldwark. 



" Mr William Wright, Stillington. 



" Mr. Samuel Swales, Tollerton. 



" The following four got within one mile of the 

 point where the deer was taken : 



" Mr. Gerald Walker, Sand Hutton. 



" The Rev. F. Simpson, Foston. 



" Mr. John Ellerby, Terrington. 



" Mr. William Barber, Easingwold. 



" The deer was christened by the ladies of 

 Mr. Wilberfoss Hornby's household ' Lord Nun- 

 burnholme ' on the morning of March the 9th, 

 1865, on which day he and the hounds and what 

 horses remained, went by rail from Market 

 Weighton to Alne." 



One of the most remarkable features of this 

 great run, which, starting on the plain near York, 

 afterwards traversed nearly the vrhole of the 



