68 IJlSlOJiV OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



' Tuesday, February 23rd. Wild Man. Found in Pickering 

 ' Wood, ran to Pallethorpe, Oxton, Catterton Spring, 

 ' Normans, over Bilbrough Hill, and lost near Colton. 

 ' Went after a fox that was viewed at Steeton Hall, and 

 ' ran to Pallethorpe, Oxton, Hornington, and stopped 

 ' the hounds near Pallethorpe in order to go after a fox 

 ' which was asleep in a tree at Nun Appleton, which 

 ' they poked down into the hounds' mouths, which were 

 ' waiting underneath the tree ! ' 



It would be interesting to know the reason for what 

 was apparently an unsportsmanlike action. There are some 

 things which are known only to the master and his hunts- 

 man, which not infrequently cause them to act in what is, 

 apparently, an unusual manner with respect to the killing of 

 a fox or the stopping of hounds, and this is doubtless one 

 of those occasions when they have had some particular and 

 ample reason for the line of action pursued. Mr. Lloyd and 

 W^ill Danby were too good sportsmen to do an unsportsman- 

 like action : — 



' Tuesday, March gth. Askham Bogs. Found in Askham 

 ' Bogs, ran by Acomb and Knapton and killed near 

 ' Mr. Spence's house. Found again in Askham Bogs, 

 ' ran by Copmanthorpe, down to Acaster, and killed him 

 * in Mr. Dixon's garden at Bishopthorpe. Twenty-eight 

 ' minutes. Very good day.' 



The last day of which there is record, and probably the 

 last day of the season, was April loth, when they met at 

 Moreby, and had a ringing run from Moreby Wood, by 

 Naburn, Moreby, Stillingfleet, into the Holly Carrs, where, 

 after running for some time, they marked their fox to 

 ground, and he was bolted and killed. 



Mr. Lloyd was afterwards presented with a handsome 

 dinner service, and in connection with this a rather heartless 

 practical joke was played upon him. Some young fellows, 

 who should have known better, issued invitations to dinner 

 in Mr. Lloyd's name to about twenty of the leading hunting- 

 men ; and to Mr. Lloyd's dismay and astonishment, he found 



