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' man, Will Danby, and the whip, Tom. We also noticed 

 ' Messrs. Gascoigne, Creyke, Prescot, Roper, Healey, Read, 

 ' Gilbert, Wilson, Gooch, Thompson and Place. The dinner 

 ' at the club afterwards was well attended, when the health 

 ' of the master and success to the York and Ainsty hounds 

 ' was drunk with enthusiasm.' 



Making allowances for the hyperbole which ap]jears here 

 and there, this is a good account of a sporting run, and it 

 may well have been the run of the season. It took place 

 on February ist, 1841, and in the following week a meeting 

 W'as held at Etridge's hotel, to consider how Mr. Lloyd's 

 services in hunting the country should be acknowledged. 



At this meetinq- the chair was taken bv Mr. R. Gilbert, 

 and it was resolved, ' That a dinner be given to George 

 Lloyd, Esq., and that a subscription be entered into for the 

 purpose of procuring a piece of plate, as a tribute of gratitude 

 for his services as master of the York and Ainsty foxhounds 

 for the last sixteen years.' The proposition was received 

 with enthusiasm, and a large amount was subscribed in the 

 room ; Lord Wenlock and the Hon. R. B. Lawley putting 

 down their names for twenty-five pounds each, and Sir Tatton 

 Sykes and other forty gentlemen for five pounds each. 



Other good runs this season are as follows : — 



'Tuesday, February i6th. Red House. Found in Red House 

 ' Wood, ran to Monkton church, and then went back 

 ' with another scent to Red House and lost him, the fox 

 ' having gone to Wilstrop. Tried Grange Wood, found 

 ' in Askham Whin, ran towards Grange Wood and turned 

 ' to the left over Rufforth Moor to Angram (where part 

 ' of the hounds turned back to Askham Whin and everybodv 

 'with them), along the bottoms at the back of Hutton, 

 ' crossed the York and Wetherby road below Marston, 

 ' through Marston Wood down to Wilstrop, nearly to 

 ' Skip Bridge inn, over Monkton Moor to Red House, 

 ' through it and down to the water side and up the 

 ' banks to Monkton, and stopped the hounds going over 

 ' the road near Monkton church. Very unlucky day.' 



