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' the high road. Tried Goldsborough Wood. Found 

 ' again in the Moor and ran to ground under the kitchen 

 ' garden at Goldsborough. Found again in the Moor, 

 ' ran to Langshaw, and killed him in the hothouse at 

 ' Ribston Hall.' 



The season of 1837-38 found the Goldsborough country 

 beginning well, for they had a lot of good hound work in 

 Goldsborough Wood on the 29th September, and after 

 knocking the cubs about there for three hours, they went 

 away with one to Ribston, and killed him on the river bank. 

 It was not long" before there was to be another good day in 

 what is now the Thursday country, and of this a full account 

 must be given : — 



' Saturda}', October 21st. Green Hammerton. Found directly 

 ' in Shipton's Rash, ran up to Green Hammerton, turned 

 ' short back and ran by Thorp Woods, down to Widdington 

 ' and killed him. Twenty-five minutes, very sharp. Found 

 ' at Kirby Hall, ran a short ring and stopped the hounds, 

 ' being an old fox that had gone away. Found at Thorp 

 ' Green, ran, skirting the Kirby coverts, along the river 

 ' side by Widdington, Thorp Woods, straight down to 

 'Nun Monkton, where he was viewed away from Mr. 

 'Butler's garden, and across the park, through the little 

 ' coverts and Widdington Wood, straight back up wind 

 ' to Kirby Hall, where he laid down in the park, and ran 

 ' into him at the edge of the long plantation. One hour 

 ' forty-five minutes. Very good day.' 



Good as it was, however, it was nothing to be compared 

 with the following, which was a typical Red House day, and 

 was certainly one of the best runs of the season. 



'Thursday, November i6th. Red House. Found in Red 

 ' House Wood, ran by Monkton church, over the moor 

 ' to Wilstrop, through it and away by Marston Grange, 

 ' skirted Marston Whin, Bilton school, past Skilbeck's 

 ' house, Bickerton far drain, turned to the right down 

 ' through Munster Hagg Wood, crossed the river by Ripley's 

 • house, crossed again and again near Cattal Bridge up 



