Sir Tatton Sykes. 



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in Skelbrooke Park. Hounds quickly had him away 

 jumping over the wall, running across the Park 

 past the Church and the Hall, with Mrs. Fullerton 

 doing the duties of field-master to keep a hard- 

 riding field in check. Scent was very catchy off the 

 grass, and Mr. Fullerton had to help 

 hounds as they hunted steadily in 

 a line with the Hull and Barnsley 

 Railway, where the going was 

 terribly deep and holding. Check- 

 ing at the Great Northern Railway 

 Bridge, they cast themselves and 

 hit off the line near the Mainpole 

 brook, running with tuneful chorus 

 to Mr. Finlay's garden at Skellow, 

 where they checked. A cast over the road set them 

 right, and they hunted slowly into Owston Park, 

 going on through BurghwalHs Wood to the hmestone 

 country beyond, where all trace of scent vanished, 

 after a patient hunt of over an hour, which brought 

 out much good hound work. For several years Mr. 

 Fullerton hunted from Grantham, and rode many a 

 good run with Tom Firr, Frank Gillard, and George 

 Gillson, being one of the foremost riders of that time. 

 During this particular season with the Badsworth, 

 Mr. Fullerton killed thirty-nine and a half brace of 

 foxes, the dog-pack having the best of the luck, 

 averaging a fox every time they went out. 



The opportunity to spend a day at Birdsall and 

 see the sights of a splendid hunting establishment, 

 over which the present and ninth Lord Middleton 

 has presided for the past thirty-two years, is one 

 of the 1908 pleasant recollections of a holiday spent 

 in Yorkshire. The very air breathes of sport and 

 savours of tradition, the rolling panorama of moor, 

 woods, hills, and winding rivers presenting a varied 



