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in a kennel, is all we can desire to see. I thought Boisterous (by 

 Lord Darlington's Brusher out of their Countess, the old Pytchley 

 sort), JoUity, Pillager, and Charity, among the old hounds, very fine 

 samples ; a three-year-old bitch, Pastime, very clever indeed ; and 

 the Splendour hounds, out of Countess, Mischief, and Toilet, in very 

 fine form. I also noticed Tuneful, by Lord Lonsdale's Roman out of 

 the Badsworth Tempest — a very promising young one. 



The subscription to the York hounds is limited, not exceeding 

 1300Z. per annum, and is chiefly raised by the resident gentlemen of 

 the city of York, although at the commencement of the last season 

 Sir Bellingham Graham became an annual subscriber of one hundred 

 pounds. The rnanagement of the establishment is left to a gentle- 

 man by the name of Lloyd, who resides at Acomb, two miles from 

 the city, and he has had it six years. He is considered a fair 

 sportsman, and universally commended for his mild and unassuming 

 manners ; and there was a time when few men could have beaten 

 him over Yorkshire. He now, however, rides well up to his hounds, 

 although between fifteen and sixteen stone on his horse. Previous 

 to Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Eobert Challoner and Mr. J. W. Clough were at 

 the head of these hounds, during which time they were hunted for 

 one season by Mr. George Treacher. 



As far as I can recollect the following is the history of this 

 country. It had once been hunted by Colonel Thornton, of Thorn- 

 ville Royal, and then lay vacant for some time. It was afterwards 

 occasionally occupied by Lord Harewood, Sir Tatton Sykes, Lord 

 Darlington, and also by the late Mr. Lane Pox, of Bramham Park ; 

 but the first to establish the York and Ainsty hounds was the 

 Honourable Captain Butler, who started them about ten years ago, 

 and had his kennel at Newmonkton, where he now resides. The 

 country is not only extensive, but wide, which obliges the hounds 

 and horses to lie from home two or three days a fortnight, which is 

 against them : and it is also intermixed with Sir Tatton Sykes 's and 

 Lord Harewood' s countries, for which reason the York and Ainsty 

 and the latter pack always hunt alternate days. 



From what I saw of the York and Ainsty, I considered it favourable 

 to hounds, but unfavourable to horses, on account of the wet, and in 

 many places boggy, state of the land, in addition to its being nine- 



