88 CDC Wenslcpaale Rounas Past and Present 



Ou going back into tlie sitting-room, the 

 Master said to Squire Tomlinson, "You seemed to 

 stare at me when I ordered that ale," 



"Yes!" he replied, "that's what I cannot do- 

 for the life of me, summat hods me back, but I'll 

 willingly pay my share of it." 



Next morning, we struck the drag of a fox, 

 before we reached the Scar, the hoiuids hunted it 

 a short distance on to the moor, where, unfortu- 

 nately, being a vixen, it was run into and killed 

 in a few hundred yards. 



We afterwards tried the wood beneath the 

 Scar, but only now and then could we get a note of 

 music. This was evidently the dog fox, but 

 whether he got into another hole or not we could 

 not make out. 



We then tried EUerton Moor and Stainton 

 Gill. I remember the Squire saying, " We should 

 never have found at all, but for that ale." We 

 then crossed Stainton Moor, through Grey Greet,. 

 ■up Leyburn Moor, through Bolton Gill, up Ape- 

 dale, and home without another whimper. 



