200 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



oil the 6th, when they met at Allertoii station. They found 

 their fox at Cranberry Carr, and ran him to ground in Skip 

 Bridge Whin after a very fine hunt of two hours. They 

 finished at Goldsbrough Hall, whence they had a fair day's 

 sport, but without adding to the noses on the kennel door. 

 During the season they killed forty-one-and-a-half brace and 

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



1S90-91. — Again was a good start made with the cub- 

 hunting, and with the ground in good order and a plentiful 

 supply of foxes everything went on briskly. September ist 

 was the first morning, and a very foggy morning it was and 

 cold withal, whilst there was a wretched scent. Still they 

 managed to get hold of a cub after some work, but they 

 found him in a turnip field of Mr. Smallwood's, and ran him 

 over a few fields into a potato field, and he never got out of 

 it. They were not long before they had a scent. On the 

 20th they went to hunt the Deighton coverts, and after a lot 

 of work, hounds running hard in covert for four hours, they 

 killed. A curious circumstance with respect to this day is 

 that it rained hard when they started to hunt, and so long as 

 rain kept falling scent was good. The monient, however, 

 that it ceased, scent began to fail. The young hounds had 

 entered well, there was a good show of fo.xes, and as yet 

 manage had not be^un to show itself Durino- the cubbino- 

 they killed sixteen-and-a-half brace and ran four brace to 

 ground. The following was probably their best day up to 

 the commencement of the regular season : — • 



' Friday, October 24th. Nun Appleton. Good scent in open; glass 

 ' falling. Found in Sickle Pit (Nun Appleton), and killed a 

 ' cub at once. Found a good show at Kennel Wood, and 

 ' after running round the covert, got away and ran up to 

 ' Appleton Common lane, and on to Brocket Hagg. Got 

 ' away from there and made a short ring, and back into 

 ' the covert. Went away a second time and lost in three 



