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SliniTsby thought of not drawing again, but some one 

 suggested that they should draw CHnt. Captain SHngsby 

 agreed, and the moment hounds were in covert they found 

 and went away smartly over the river Nidd. leaving 

 Birstwith Hall on the right, and over Kettlesing Head 

 and bv Fewston reservoir, and finally they marked their 

 fox to ground at West End, near the Rocking Stones, on 

 the edge of Pock Stone Moor. The run was over a very 

 severe line of country, as those who have ridden over 

 Blubberhouses Moor do not need telling, and the field was 

 well thinned out before the end came. It was about ten 

 o'clock when Mr. Wilmot Smith, to whom 1 am indebted 

 for an account of this run, arrived home. He was riding 

 the late Mr. Clare Vyner's Mausoleum, a high class steeple- 

 chase horse in his day. Another incident in connection 

 with the run was that it took place before a very hard 

 frost, and hounds were not out of the kennel again till 

 February 3rd. Indeed, it froze very hard as they were 

 returning home that night, and there was some difficulty with 

 the slippery road in places. 



During the time he hunted the country. Captain 

 SHngsby showed good sport, and it was to the general 

 regret of the hunt that he felt himself obliged to retire on 

 account of failing health at the end of his fourth season. 

 A good successor was found for him in Captain Brockle- 

 hurst, who retained Gillson as his huntsman. 



1883-84. — Captain Brocklehurst's first season's cub- 

 hunting was a satisfactory one, hounds killing nineteen 

 brace of foxes. The regular season opened on Monday, 

 November 5th, at Sutton Hall, but they had only a 

 moderate day's sport, scent being very bad and the morning 

 a wild one. It was not long before there was a change for 

 the better, and a fortnight later they had a good hunting 

 run of two hours forty-five minutes from Linton Spring, 



