64 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND A INST Y HUNT. 



With such a crowd it was hardly h'kely that there would 

 be much sport, for it almost t^oes without saying that the 

 stag was a good deal mobbed, and this is a thing which 

 stags do not care for. The first stag was enlarged close to 

 Grimston Bar, and ran first in the direction of Murton, and 

 turning to the left he crossed the Murton road midway 

 between that village and Osbaldwick, hounds now running 

 smartly. They crossed Bad Bargain lane, and leaving 

 Heworth to the left, crossed the Stockton road, and ran over 

 Heworth Moor into the Rev. J. Acaster's park, the stag 

 curiously enough avoiding the deer there, and crossing the 

 Malton road close to Monk Bridge, they ran along Monk 

 Gate up to Aldwark, and took their stag in the Black Swan 

 yard, Peasholme Green. There was too much of the town 

 element about this hunt for it to have been interesting, but 

 it would be a source of great entertainment to many who 

 had never seen a hunt before. The second stag was uncarted 

 opposite the Grimston New inn, in a field adjoining the Hull 

 road. First they ran him towards Elvington, and crossed 

 the Elvington lane, but bending a little to the left they ran 

 over Dunnington Common and through Kexby Wood, leaving" 

 the village to the left, down to the Derwent, which they 

 crossed half a mile from Ke.xby Bridge. They ran about a 

 mile at the far side of the river, and then turned and re- 

 crossed it close to Kexby Bridge, and crossing the Hull road 

 they ran on to Gate Helmsley, where they took the stag in 

 a pond. It was a I'un ot an hour and ten minutes, and was 

 run at a fair pace all the way. The whipper-in, Will Ellerton, 

 tried to swim the Derwent with hounds, but in mid-stream 

 he parted from his horse, and whilst he got out at the right 

 side, his horse swam back to the side he had come from. 

 The Eddlethorpe foxhounds, then under the mastership of 

 Sir Tatton Sykes, met at Gate Helmsley that morning, and 

 had not long left Kexby Wood, which they drew blank, 



