72 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



• near Flaxby. Dug him out and killed him. Viewed 

 ' another fox out of the hole and ran him to Flaxby 

 ' plantation, moor, wood, and along the water side and 

 ' back by Ribston, and stopped the hounds near Allerton 

 ' New inn.' 



On February 15th they had a pretty Httle run from 

 Red House Wood. First they took a ring out by Moor 

 Monkton, and back through the wood, and then they ran 

 by .Scag-glethorpe and Knapton, and killed their fox on 

 Severus liill. 



' Tuesday, February 22nd. Wild Man. Fountl in Pickering, 

 ' ran to Steeton plantation and lost. Tried Pallethorpe 

 ' and Hornington Willow garth. Chopped a fox in the 

 ' plantation near Martin's house. Found in the New 

 ' Wood, ran by Bolton Percy, Hornington, O.X-ton, Tad- 

 ' caster town end, crossed the road pointing to Mr. 

 ' Brooksbank's, turned to the right to the Wood House, 

 ' Shireoaks, where the hounds divided (part went to earth 

 ' in Catterton Whin), (Catterton) Spring, over Bilbrough 

 ' Moor, over the hill to a willow garth at the edge of 

 ' Askham Field, where he jumped up before the hounds 

 ' which were stopped, as someone supposed he might 

 ' be a fresh fox.' 



There is nothing more to record of this season, which 

 seems on the whole to have been an indifferent one, and it 

 certainly did not come up to its immediate predecessors for 

 good long runs with straight-necked foxes. 



The season of 1842-43 was decidedly a better one, 

 though there was not much to talk about till after October 

 went out. They had an useful day's sport on October 15th 

 from Street Houses, and a week later Askham Bogs showed 

 them plenty of foxes, but they failed to get hold of one. 

 November, however, opened auspiciously : — 



' Tuesday, November ist. Red House. Found in Red House 

 ' Wood, ran by Cock Hill, almost to Hessay, turned to 



