THE RULE OF Mr. E. LYCETT GREEN. igi 



It was Wilson's opinion that it was all one run, and in 

 the account he gives of the run he says that the fox waited 

 for them in a small covert near Strensall, and he gives the 

 time as over four hours. It was nine o'clock when hounds 

 got home. Sir Edward Green got a bad fall in the run and 

 was rather hurt, and this prevented Mr. Lycett Green from 

 seeing the whole of it. 



The season was brought to a close on Thursday, April 

 I 2th, at Ribston, where, owing to Wilson's illness, Mr. 1 ycett 

 Green carried the horn. It was a good day's sport for the 

 time of year, though the fallows were dry and dusty. They 

 found in Ribston Great Wood, and ran through Langshaw 

 and Goldsbrough Moor, and finally marked their fo.x to 

 ground on the river banks after a very pretty ring of about 

 twenty-seven minutes. The record for the season was thirty 

 brace killed and twenty-three and a half brace run to ground. 



1888-89.— The bad harvest, which did so much to 

 accentuate the difficult position in which farmers found them- 

 selves in the summer of 1888, had also its effect upon the 

 hunting world, and it was not till September was nearly over 

 that hounds were able to make a start amongst the cubs. 

 A new departure was made this season, the master hunting 

 the bitches, whilst Wilson still continued to hunt the dogs. 

 The opening morning was at Moreby, and was a fairly 

 satisfactory one. Wilson took twenty-five couples of the dog 

 hounds out, and after a lot of work got hold of a cub. 

 Three days later, on Friday, September 28th, Mr. Lycett 

 Green hunted the bitch pack for the first time. The fixture 

 was the kennels, and a useful morning's sport took place. 

 They found in Knavesmire Wood, and ran for fifty minutes 

 about Middlethorpe and Bishopthorpe, finally getting hold 

 of their fox in Knavesmire Wood. Scent changed for the 

 worse in the after part of the day, and a fox from Askham 



