CHAPTER XIII 



YORKSHIRE HUNTERS AND HOUNDS 



A day with Mr. J. H. S. Fullerton hunting the Badsworth hounds — 

 Badsworth Finisher — The meet at Robin Hood Well — The bag for 

 the season— Lord Middleton's country — The late Sir Tatton Sykes 

 — The kennels at Birdsall — Tom Bishopp — The leading strains of 

 hounds and celebrities in kennel— Lord Middleton's stables and 

 hunt horses — Hunter sires at Birdsall — Hunter brood mares with 

 sixty years' pedigrees — Mr. Arthur Wilson, master of the Holderness 

 — The winners at Peterborough in 1902 — Holderness Handel and 

 Sanguine. 



" Oh, shadow of glory, 

 Dim image of war ; 

 But the chase hath a glory, 

 Her hero a star." 



Through the kind invitation of Mr. J. H. S. 

 Fullerton, when master of the Badsworth, we can 

 claim to have seen one day's hunting with a York- 

 shire pack in the spring of 1901. A deep fall of 

 snow during the night made the prospect of hunting 

 very doubtful, but the sun worked a quick change, 

 so that in a few hours the valleys were in flood. The 

 meet was at Robin Hood Well, on the Great North 

 Road, six miles north of Doncaster, and we rode 

 six miles to covert from the kennels at Wentbridge 

 with Mr. Fullerton, who was hunting the lady pack 

 of eighteen and a half couple. The kennel was con- 

 siderably strengthened with Belvoir and Brocklesby 

 blood ; a very nice dog. Finisher by Belvoir Dexter, 

 being amongst those that won honours at Peter- 

 borough for Mr. Fullerton. 



At the meet, intelligence of an outlier reached 

 the master, seen an hour previously near the quarry 



