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trainer, brought all hounds back to kennel with 

 the exception of a couple which were brought 

 home by the second whip, Mr. Gervasse Scrope." 



The distance must have been fully fifteen 

 miles. And it is rather remarkable that, although 

 I have been on my back for upwards of twenty- 

 five years, chiefly spent in the South of 

 England — in the summer months at Hove or 

 Brighton for County Cricket ; and Eastbourne in 

 the winter for Football, the only sources of sport 

 now left to me, in my bathchair — only a week 

 before the above run I wrote to Mr. Scrope 

 telling him of the very hole where the fox beat 

 them. 



I find that the late Mr. Simon Scrope — great- 

 grandfather of the present S. C. Scrope — had 

 hounds at Danby from 1805 to about 1830. He 

 hunted in scarlet. I have an excellent picture of 

 him mounted on a well-known chestnut horse, 

 which he hunted for twelve seasons, when he 

 was running into his hare on Middleham Moor. 

 The picture, unfortunately, is not clear enough 

 to be reproduced. 



