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' hundred horsemen. My own impression is that five 

 ' hundred would be about the mark. The carriages 

 ' extended nearly from Dringhouses to the hill opposite 

 ' Copmanthorpe ; and as to the foot-people, their name 

 ' was legion, every hill or point of vantage within sight 

 ' being occupied by a dark mass, with a chain of skirmishers 

 ' extending from one group to the other. It almost made 

 ' one tremble for Mr. Hall's beautiful bitches, as they 

 ' trotted gently up through the dense crowd of carriages 

 ' and horses ; and Mr. Hall must have been pleased at 

 ' the reception given them. In the crowd it was not very 

 ' easy to make out who was present, and greetings were 

 ' going on for nearly the whole of the day between friends 

 ' who had never run against each other until that moment. 

 ' One veteran sportsman from Holderness said to me : 

 ' "This beats everything I have seen, even in Leicestershire." 

 ' Besides Mr. Hall and Misses Emily and Frances Hall, 

 ' we had Mr. and Miss York, Mr. Brown and his two 

 ' nieces, and another lady, whose name I could not learn. 

 ' Mr. G. L. Fox was there from the Bramham ; Sir G. 

 ' Wombwell, Major Wombwell, the Hon. Egremont Las- 

 ' celles, INIr. Rudstone Read, Mr. Bateman, Capt. Oliver, 

 ' Capt. Gunter, Capt. Telford, Mr. Whitehead, i\Ir. Pease, 

 ' Mr. Lambert, Capt. Lawson, ]\Ir. Grimston of Kneswick, 

 ' Mr. Lightfoot, Mr. S. Key, Mr. A. Walker, Mr. Holliday, 

 ' and Mr. G. Crawshaw. I also noticed Major Dusker, well 

 ' known with hounds in the South of England, amongst 

 ' the infantry division. 



' It was decided that we should not draw the famed 

 ' Askham Bogs, but trot away to Swan's Whin, some three 

 ' or four miles distant beyond Acomb. When we had 

 ' nearly reached this. Sir G. Wombwell got forward, and 

 ' stopping the crowd in a road, left Backhouse free to 

 ' draw the Whin with his pack. There is some capital lying 

 ' here, and it took them a long time to work through ; so 

 ' that ere a note was heard, the crowd had edged up to 

 ' the covert. The hand-gates by the side being very much 

 ' crowded, a great many tried their hands over the fences, 

 ' and no small amusement was caused by a lad whose 

 ' horse jumped higher than he expected, and put him 

 ' down. Of course the horse was soon caught, and when 



