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Mr. Tomlinson concluded by the ordnance map, 

 measured by T. F. King, Land Agent, tliat he 

 must have ran forty miles. 



Squire Tomlinson always said it was the 

 longest run of his life ; that he was the biggest 

 greyhound fox he had ever seen, and that he 

 was as long as Dodds's Bink, a stone bench in 

 front of the village inn at Carperby, then kept 

 by John Dodsworth, alias Dodds, who also kept a 

 good black and tan hound bitch, called "Merry- 

 lass." She was sister to "Romper," also black 

 and tan. 



"Romper" was an excellent fox hound, as 

 well as a capital trail hound, and was kept by 

 Mr. Tomlinson. I recollect his winning several 

 matches, one especially with "Matchem." It was 

 five miles straight, from the bottom of Middleham 

 Moor to near Thupton Gill. 



I also recollect a very peculiar incident in 

 connection with "Romper," of which I was an 

 eye witness. It was after finding a fox in deep 

 snow at the bottom of EUerkin, that both the fox 

 and "Romper" stuck fast in a huge drift. The 



