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Mr John Brown, Mr R. C. Dixon, Mr Tom Barker, 

 Mr Wm. Frank. Mr Robin Pearson, Dr and Miss 

 W. Withington, Mr R. Rivis, Mr Alfred " Nimrod " 

 Pearson, the hon. secretary, with Mr Tom Parrington 

 on wheels. 



The pack for the day w^as eighteen and a half 

 couples, and finding in Rookborough covert close to 

 the village, they ran hard in a south-west direction 

 down to Sparrow Hall Bridge, crossing the river 

 Dove. The fox then turned sharp northwards and 

 ran up the east bank of the river to Edstone, over 

 the hill, across Marton Common farm to Sinnington 

 Mill. It was a very sharp five and thirty minutes 

 up to that point, then hounds checked ; but hitting 

 it off up the Seven beck side they ran to Sinnington 

 Lodge, across the railway and over Wrelton Cliff 

 in the direction of Pickering. A storm came on 

 and scent failed considerably, but after patient 

 hunting below Wrelton, Aislaby, and Middleton 

 villages, through the grounds of Keld Head House, 

 hounds killed their fox dead-beat in Mr Ryley's 

 garden at Savile House, on the outskirts of Pickering. 

 It was a capital hunt of one hour and twenty-five 

 minutes, the first thirty-five minutes being very fast. 

 The mask of this good fox was presented by Mr 

 Sherbrooke to Prince Arthur of Connaught. A 

 move was then made to Rookborough covert, and 

 a fox bolted from the artificial earths, led the pack 

 at a good pace for fifteen minutes ; saving his brush 

 by getting to ground in the railway embankment at 

 Sinnington Manor. The next draw was Muscoates 

 Whin, and hounds ran in the direction of Salton. 

 Turning right-handed they crossed the Riccal beck, 

 running along the Rye beck on the north bank 

 past Ness Hall and village, to Nunnington at a nice 

 pace. There plough caused slow hunting and several 



