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' Whin, bent away to the left by Launde Farm, and lost 

 ' him going to Court House, having been delayed by the 

 ' railway. Two hours and five minutes, over a very heavy 

 ' line.' 



On December 26th they met at Scotton Bar and had 

 only a moderate day's sport. It was, however, distinguished 

 by a very interesting incident. There was a great crowd 

 out, and there were several foxes in Scotton Banks, 

 hounds running there for an hour or more, and it was 

 the opinion of Squires that they killed one. Then they 

 went away with one and ran him a short ring into the 

 country and back again. The fox was then holloaed in 

 Scriven Park, was pretty well mobbed by the crowd, and 

 finally got up and on to the low roof of an out-hotise 

 and dropped down into the enclosed duck pond, where he 

 was killed by Sultan and Barmaid. Tuff, who was on 

 the bank, made an ineffectual attempt to get hold of the 

 fox, and his carcase floated out into the middle of the 

 pond and looked like sinking, when Tuff drew the attention 

 of Barmaid, who was swimming in the pond, to it, and 

 she immediately swam to it and brought it to bank like 

 a retriever. I should add that this was my first day 

 with the York and Ainsty, and the pad of that fox, in 

 the form of a paper-knife, is on my desk as a memento. ^ 



February was a good month, and they had some fine 

 sport on the 13th in the Ripley country. They found a fox 

 in Bishop Monkton Whin, and ran him smartly by Burton 

 Leonard to the Warren, where three foxes went away with 

 the hunted one. They then ran a ring by Staveley and 

 Copgrove nearly to Roecliffe, and got up to their hunted 



(i) It is not a little singular that three hunt seivants out that day died a 

 violent death : Squires being killed a few weeks later, whilst Truman Tuff fell 

 downstairs and broke his neck, and Jim Trivick, who developed into a good 

 huntsman, and who carried the horn in the Cleveland, Hurworth, and Ledbury 

 countries, was killed just as his hounds were killing their fox at Malvern, his 

 horse catching the tram lines and falling heavily, throwing Jim on to his head on 

 the kerbstone. 

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