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away, but tlie lionnds, not to be denied, pusbed 

 bim tbrougb Horner's allotment, down to Wood- 

 ball Coombs, back again tbroiigb Hawbank and 

 Lingy pasture; over Virgin Top to Swaledale, 

 wbere be turned to tbe west along the moor edges, 

 up Smnmer Lodge Gill, over Woodball Greets 

 and into Metcalfe's plantation, wbere be was laid. 



It bad snowed and blown (or ratlier as we say 

 in tbe Dale it bad stoured), so badly across 

 Beldon and Greets, tbat tbe pace was extremely 

 slow. He was tally-boed out of tbe east end of 

 tbe plantation, tbe bounds did not get a view at 

 bim, but ran bim fast above Hawbank, tbrougb 

 Bolton Parks, Bolton Gill, along Redmire Sbawl 

 into Leyburn Sbawl, wbere tbis gallant fox was 

 lost — nobody being up to render any assistance to 

 tbis plucky little pack. 



Tbis run occupied nearly six bours, and it 

 must bave been considerably over twenty miles, 

 as tbe point from Metcalfe's allotment to Leyburn 

 is over ten miles. 



