THE ACCIDENT AT NEW BY FERRY. 



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' well over before the huntsman or Sir Charles came up. 

 ' The fields being small, with some impracticable fences, 

 ' the leading hounds had every advantage of getting 

 ' well to work. 



' After going a few fields further, the hounds made a 

 ' pause, and were out of sight in a little valley. Sir 

 ' Charles came up to me at the moment, and, thinking 

 ' the fox had doubled back, he gave just two blasts with 

 ' his horn to stop them. Looking ahead at that instant, 

 ' I espied one or two hounds leading at some distance, 

 ' and called his attention to them, when horses and hounds 

 ' went straight to Burton Wood as fast as hounds and 

 ' horses can go. 



' The scent was good, and he was soon obliged to 

 ' depart; he pointed for Roecliffe Whin, but, being hard 

 'pressed, only got in that direction as far as the Borough- 

 ' bridge Lodge in Copgrove Park. He now turned west, 

 ' pointing for Walkingham Warren, still closely pressed, 

 ' when he doubled, and got into a plantation on the west 

 ' side of Copgrove Park called the Black Walk. Here 

 ' the baronet again changed his horse from the roan to 

 ' the ill-starred old Saltfish ; the hounds going up this 

 ' Black Walk — I believe with the fox in view. There 

 ' is a small wicket gate at the west end, where I assisted 

 ' Sir Charles through, the hounds breaking covert at the 

 ' same moment. Just below there is a ford over Stainley 

 ' Beck ; part of the pack flashed across the stream, and 

 ' I believe Sir Charles had viewed, as he with his usual 

 'authoritative "Here!" "Here!" had them back in an 

 ' instant, showing the tractability of this unrivalled pack. 



' They ran on the south side of this beck, a few fields 

 ' to the west, towards Stainley ; then turned north, 

 ' skirting Burton Leonard on the east, and thence again 

 ' direct to Burton Wood. The writer, with the second 

 ' whip, going to the down wind side, viewed him away, 

 ' the hounds close upon him, when he took his line as 

 ' direct as possible to the fatal river Ure, for the third 

 ' or fourth time during this season. 



' Being from Burton Wood, and knowing the country, 

 ' I was very forward ; but before reaching the river, Sir 

 ' Geo. Wombwell, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Robinson, Capt. Key, 



