152 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



' Monday, September 14th. Stillington Hall. Found good 

 'show of cubs in Hawk Hills and Stillington. Got one 

 ' into small covert near keeper's house at Hawk Hills. 

 ' He took a turn in the open and they pulled him down. 

 ' Bitches. Take two hours, fifteen minutes to get to 

 ' Stillington. Started at 5 a.m.' 



'Tuesday, September 22nd. Street Plouses. Found lots of 

 ' cubs in vSteeton Whin, away by Bramber House to 

 ' Pallethorpe earths, stopped hounds. Came back to 

 ' Steeton where we killed a cub. Went to Pallethorpe, 

 ' found a cub, away over the brook, killed in a hedgerow 

 ' near Swindel's House. Good scurry for hounds. Found 

 ' four foxes in Pickering Wood, took one away towards 

 ' Wild Man, stopped the hounds at York road. Good day 

 ' for hounds. Bolton Willow Garth blank.' 



' Tuesday, October 20th. Acomb village. Found lots of foxes 

 ' in Bog, ran one to Askham village, lost. Found in 

 ' Colton, ran to Bog, and out, to ground in Copmanthorpe, 

 ' bolted him, he beat us. We went on with him to Colton, 

 ' through the whin, and he went to ground under the road 

 ' near Copmanthorpe. Swann's terrier bolted him, and we 

 ' killed at 4-30. Dogs. Good day.' 



' Thursday, October 22nd. Scriven Bar. Went straight to 

 ' Lofthouse Whin, found and killed a cub. Away with 

 ' another over Hay Park, killed him near Arkendale after 

 • a nice hunt of forty minutes. Good thing for hounds. 

 ' Bitches.' 



'Saturday, October 31st. Thicket Priory. No foxes. Never 

 ' found until we got to Skipwith Common, away to 

 ' Osgodby, Cliff Woods, to ground on common in rabbit 

 ' hole. Forty minutes, very fast. Dug him out. Dogs.' 



This was the last day of the cub-hunting season, in which 

 hounds had been out thirty-four times, and killed thirteen- 

 and-a-half brace of foxes ; not quite such a good score as 

 the first season, but sport is not to be reckoned by the 

 number of noses on the kennel door, and on the whole it 

 was superior to its predecessor. The honours were pretty 

 evenly divided, the dogs killing seven brace. 



