EARLY HISTORY OF THE HUNT. 33 



' the record of a fox-cliase is an especial tame thing,' 

 and that ' the calling to mind of chases, however 

 brilliantly run even a month ago, although it may not be 

 beyond an effort of memory, is certainly beyond that of 

 feeling.' 



The banker poet, Rogers, hit off the sportsman's 

 spirit far better than did this contributor to the Sporting 

 Magazine, when he pictures the old squire, no longer 

 able to take part in the sport he loved so well, 

 'scouring the country in his elbow chair,' and we should 

 have preferred ' one day from Sessay Wood, and 

 Brafferton Spring, and another from Skip Bridge, Providence 

 Green, or Askham Bogs,' to any amount of moralising or 

 quotations from Juvenal. However, we have to be 

 thankful that we have the opinion of a man who 

 evidently knew something about hunting, respecting the 

 pack in its early years. 



' So far as I have been able to judge of these 

 hounds,' says he, ' from what I have seen of other packs, 

 I should be led to assert that they are one of the 

 fastest packs in Yorkshire;' and whilst he speaks very 

 favourably of the management, he suggests that a little 

 more activity on the part of the hunstman would be of 

 advantage. 



Who the correspondent of the Sporting Magazine 

 was I have not been able to discover, but in the 

 following season, a greater man than he came to visit 

 the York and Ainsty country, viz., Mr. Charles James 

 Apperley, known to all hunting men as ' Nimrod.' The 

 York and Ainsty occupied a good deal of his time 

 during his famous Yorkshire tour, and the hounds pleased 

 even his fastidious eye. Naylor, who was Mr. Lloyd's 

 first huntsman, was a capital man in the kennel, and the 

 hounds had even then, at so early a period of their 

 history, achieved a high reputation on the flags. 



