92 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



Temple. Time, one hour and twenty minutes. This run, 

 the writer of the narrative says, was the run of the season, 

 and it was certainly good enouoh to be the run of any 

 season, if the distance, pace, and variety of country crossed 

 are considered. Such being the case, it is a pity that the 

 writer did not take pains to give us a more detailed account 

 of the run, instead of interlarding his brief account with 

 ' Major Bostock,' and a whole string of superfluous exclama- 

 tions, such as ' Yoicks ! ' ' Tallyho ! ' It should be remarked 

 that the morning when this fine run took place was mild and 

 springlike, and the ground was very dry. 



The next run of which I have any account comes from 

 the same pen, and curiously enough it took place in the 

 same country. I give the account verbatim : — 



'The York and Ainsty met on the 7th (January 7th, i860) 

 ' at Sessay Station. A more unpropitious morning never 

 ' dawned for hunting. If your readers will remember 

 ' that last year when I penned you a run, I prefaced it 

 ' by saying everyone voted " the day more fitted for 

 ' primrosing than hunting." I am sure everyone said 

 'the 7th was more fitted for skating or arctic voyagers. 

 ' No York men came to the scratch. For two hours we 

 ' cooled our heels at Sessay Station, when Sir Charles — 

 ' pluck to the backbone — at noon determined to throw 

 ' his hounds into Sessay Spring. The bound in was 

 ' electrifying, a joyous sound increasing in the clear air, 

 ' a whimper, and then a full chorus. Away we go, never 

 ' heeding danger, though it was a case of hammering the 

 'hard fields — a lady on a clipped dun to the fore, shaming 

 ' the pink-coated masculines, who held reins already 

 ' and said " Oh, it was too hard." Away to Thirkleby. 

 ' Here he turned to Carlton, thence to Thornton, and by 

 ' Newburgh Park to Gilling Castle and back to Gilling 

 ' Wood, and we ran him to ground under the temple of 

 ' this well-known wood. Up to Newburgh Park from 

 ' Sessay Spring the distance was twelve miles. Time : 

 ' one hour and three minutes, after a good old-fashioned 

 ' run. Twelve miles in an hour and three minutes, in 



