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the rocks and linrt lierself. She was taken to 

 Bolton, where she died. I remember George 

 Lowden (the whip) coming to the stahles for 

 another horse ; he had got through two, and he 

 finished the rim. on a coh, accompanied by about 

 two couple of hounds." 



I find an entry in my father's diary as 



follows : — 



"March 28th, 1858. — Stag hunting, run seventeen 

 miles. Time, two hoiu's." [This was evi- 

 dently the run above described.] 



I also find the following entries for the first 



year he kept harriers : — 



" October 6th, 1851. — Killed three hares. 



October 11th, 1851. — KiUed one hare. 



October 15th, 1851. — Killed three hares (Spenni- 

 thorne). 



October 21st. — Killed five hares (Castle Bolton). 



October 25th. — KiUed four hares (Middleham). 



March 17th, 1860. — Hunted a hind ; ran from 

 Harmby, Eastfield, Danby, East Witton, 

 past Ellington towards Masham, re-took 



