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' worked him through on to Bickerton Spring, could make 

 ' nothing more out. About thirty minutes up to Nova 

 ' Scotia. Pace good. The couples that divided from the 

 ' body in Nova Scotia slipped away at the top end of that 

 ' covert and ran over the Ainsty, and were seen by the 

 ' huntsman's second horseman with their fox close in front 

 ' of them just before they ran into Grange Wood, Moon- 

 • shine (1886) leading them.' 



From Cranberry Carr to Grange Wood would have been 

 a great run if all the hounds had got away together, and it 

 is within the range of probability that, as it was, Moonshine 

 and her comrades accounted for their fox. 



A good season was brought to a close on April i6th at 

 Birstwith station, where they had a moderate day's sport. 

 During the season they killed twenty-nine brace of foxes and 

 ran seventeen-and-a-half brace to ground. 



1889-90. — The following season started early, and on 

 August 31st Wilson took twenty-eight couples and a half 

 into Stub Wood and had a good morning's work, killing one 

 cub and running another to ground. The cub-hunting season 

 was a satisfactory one, foxes turning up well nearly all over 

 the country, and they killed nineteen brace and ran eight 

 brace to ground. 



The regular season opened brilliantly, and with a little 

 more scent the run would have been a historic one, for there 

 was a good fox, and hounds did all that could be expected 

 of them, working beautifully : — 



' Monday, November 4th. Hawk Hills. Scent very moderate 

 'indeed in morning; good holding scent in afternoon. 

 ' Glass rising. Found a good show in Hawk Hills Old 

 ' Wood and got on a cub. Ran a ring slowly towards 

 ' Crayke and back into the same covert. Getting away 

 ' again, ran through Folly Wood on to Stillington Carr. 

 ' Got away to the right, worked on to Stillington beck ; 

 ' checked, hit off the line ; hunted very slowly, leaving 



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