50 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



The season of 1S35-36 was a long one, commencing in 

 September and not being brought to a close until late in 

 April. Red House, as usual, occupies a prominent place in 

 the annals of the season, but the Red House foxes scarcely 

 showed so much enterprise as they had done in the two 

 previous seasons. On September 2 2ncl they met at Acaster, 

 and after some good hound work, killed a brace of foxes in 

 Acaster Whin. After that they seem to have had a fairly 

 successful cub-hunting, and the sport seems to have been 

 fair on the whole ; but nothing calls for note till November 

 17th, when they had a hard day from Red House. They 

 ran their second fox from the wood, over Monkton Moor, 

 by Skip Bridge, and into Wilstrop Wood. Here some time 

 was spent, hounds running hard all the while, and it is far 

 from unlikely that they changed, foxes. They got away at 

 last, and ran over Marston Moor, finally losing their fo.x 

 close to Marston church. It is worthy of notice that this 

 year the Red House foxes seemed to make quite a different 

 point to what they had done in previous seasons. 



On December ist they had what was probably the run 

 of the season ; at any rate it is the best run with the York 

 and Ainsty of which Mr. York gives an account, though 

 they did not kill their fox. It will be noticed that it is a 

 Bramham Moor fixture, and in those days both packs 

 advertised for the Wild Man, the York and Ainsty fixture 

 of Street Houses being a comparatively modern departure : — 



'Tuesday, December ist. Wild Man. Tried Steeton planta- 

 ' tions and Pickering Wood. Found in Pallethorpe Wood, 

 ' ran towards Bolton Percy, and then turned short back 

 ' to Oxton, where a fox jumped up before the hounds 

 ' and ran by Tadcaster Bar, through Catterton Spring, 

 ' Catterton Whin, past Healaugh Manor, leaving Wighill 

 ' village on the left, across the Avenue, leaving Wighill 

 ' Park on the right, through Walton Wood, Sunnythwaites, 

 ' skirted Hall Parks, straight away to Noble Wood, 



