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effectual, as I believe there have been cubs there 

 every year since. 



In the afternoon there were a couple of hound 

 trails round the village, mingling with other 

 sports. 



At the present day that meet has been quite 

 abandoned. Mr. Scrope, of Danby Hall, now 

 Jiunts Penhill. 



A Few Curious Incidents. 



I HAVE in my dining room at Thornton Rust a 

 very large stuffed otter, which weighed twenty- 

 eight pounds ; the biggest greyhound fox with 

 the longest brush I ever saw. Also a white hare, 

 the only specimen I have ever seen. It is not a 

 Scotch or Irish blue hare, but a freak of nature in 

 the common brown hare. These were all killed 

 by the Wensleydale hounds. There is also the 

 skull of an otter which was smashed by a hound 

 called " Cloudy " below Redmire Fors, the only 



