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lation. Other good days were November 25th, at Aycliffe, 

 when one run of an hour and fifty-three minutes caused all 

 to cry enough! and December 21st, at Fishburn, when a 

 good fox from Humbleknowle stood up before hounds for an 

 hour and fifty minutes before he was killed at Hart Bushes. 

 Hounds were never once handled ; and Bevans and others, 

 who viewed the fox away in the first instance, always main- 

 tained that it was the self-same fox throughout. The two 

 following days were almost equally good, as were many 

 others that succeeded, and it will perhaps suffice if mention 

 is made of the Longnewton day on March 3rd, 1882, when 

 hounds showed what they could do, given straight foxes and 

 a holding scent. 



Details from Diary are as follows. — Found a brace at 

 once at Fox Hill, and racing away, at first east and then 

 bearing round north-west, hounds killed their fox in twelve 

 minutes. Drew Barker's plantation, Sandylees, Sutton's whin, 

 Oxeye, Bishopton whin, Woogrey, and Lee Close blank. 

 Found on Bleach House moors and had a magnificent forty- 

 five minutes, as fast as we could go, by Lee Close covert, 

 Bishopton on the left, Woogrey and Barmpton whin to 

 Albert Hill Ironworks, running into him at the wall sur- 

 rounding the Presbyterian Chapel in North Road, Darlington, 

 which he vainly endeavoured to scale. f 



Altogether the season of 1881-2 was about a best on 

 record, and seems to stand out by itself at this period. In 

 1882-3 there was a very successful cub-hunting, and young 

 foxes were very numerous, no less than two and a half 

 brace being accounted for one morning (Sept. 22nd, 1882) 



fTwo four-year-old hunters went well to the front throughout this gallop, but they never 

 really recovered from the effects of the pace and severity of the run, and neither of them 

 did mnch hunting afterwards. 



