igo HISTORY OF THE YORK A .VD AINSTY HUNT 



' leaving Smith's Whin three fields to our right, he ran up 

 ' the road as if for Flaxton ; turning again off the road, ran 

 ' him over the railway near Flaxton station, passed Lilling 

 ' Hall on our left, pointed as if for Stittenham ; turning to 

 ' the right, ran down the hill and up to within a field of 

 ' Foston covert, and ran into him in the open — a field to the 

 ' left and within half a mile of Bulmer Hagg. One hour 

 ' and fifteen minutes ; ten-mile point ; really g-ood hunting, 

 ' fast at times and slow at others.' 



' Monday.March 26th. .Sutton-on-the-F'orest. Found in Hundred 

 ' Acre Farm Covert at Haxby. Ran up to Suet Carr, turned 

 ' short to the left and then worked on to Haxby Whin ; 

 ' showed a line into Haxby Whin, got away with the fox 

 ' from there, ran fast as if for Sutton, but turning to the 

 ' right ran through Suet Carr on to the Oak plantation ; 

 'checked there, worked the line on into Strensall village 

 ' end and down to Foss Beck, where the fox had crossed 

 ' and recrossed ; took a sort of line on to the old fox covert, 

 'held them forward to the left, and in the end worked 

 ' round to the little covert near Strensall and Sheriff Hutton. 

 'A fox had gone away from tliere without being seen. 

 ' Hounds settled down on his line and ran through the old 

 'fox covert, and worked him over Sheriff Hutton beck; 

 ' turned short to the right, ran down the bank, and pointed 

 ' as if for Smith's Whin ; after going within two fields of 

 ' that covert, turned to the left over the lane and pointed 

 ' for Sheriff Hutton ; after checking slightly, turned to the 

 ' left and ran up just to the left of Sheriff Hutton, over the 

 ' hill, and pointed for Stittenham Wood ; after a slight 

 ' check, hunted the line on into Stittenham Wood and over 

 ' into the Oxclose pasture-garth ; checked between the 

 ' covert and Castle Howard Park ; getting information 

 ' there, ran him into the park and nearly up to the Castle, 

 ' and checked ; after a wide cast, hit off the line into the 

 'woods on the left; hunted him slowly on, till, getting up 

 ' to him, killed in the open, on the edge of Sutton Wood, 

 ' near Castle Howard. Two hours thirteen minutes; hounds 

 ' worked wonderfully well. Some people were inclined to 

 ' think it was the same fox all through from Haxby Whin, 

 ' in which case hounds would have run over fifteen miles.' 



