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' Reilly plantation, new gorse on Mr. Hawking's farm, 

 ' Aldwark Aloor, and the gorse covert on it, Aldvvark 

 ' Wood and the Fox Covert next it, Youlton Whin and 

 'Alne Whin. The coverts belonging to Aldvvark were 

 ' only stopped that morning ; vixens had begun drawing 

 ' out the earths. Got on a line in Hawk Hills old covert, 

 ' and worked it up to the Crayke end of the covert. As 

 ' soon as they were outside, scent improved, and they ran 

 ' fast until just below Easingwold. Turned short to the 

 ' right, leaving Easingwold to the left ; Peep o' Day also 

 'on the left. Slight check; hit off the line; run up to 

 ' Newburgh (thirty- three minutes). Ran through the 

 ' covert above the Crow Wood ; came to a check. Hounds 

 'were cast over the park. Streamlet (1890) and P>enzy 

 ' (1890) struck a line across the park which the old 

 ' hounds did not seem to fancy. It turned out to be 

 ' right, however, and the body of the pack worked it up to 

 ' Heronsew Gill. Ran down to Ampleforth station, but 

 ' hounds never spoke to it after crossing the railway. 

 ' Drew the other Newburgh coverts and got on our hunted 

 'fox in the one just below the keeper's house, ran through 

 ' Pond Head Wood, over Yearsley Moor, down to the 

 ' plantations near Ampleforth station. Fox dead beat ! 

 ' hounds close at him. Raced him nearly in view into 

 ' Gilling Wood. There he beat us owing to hounds 

 ' getting on a fresh fox. The pace was good for thirty- 

 ' three minutes, and the line one of the best. The best 

 ' day we have had (if they had only got him) this season. 

 ' A six-and-a-half mile point ; as hounds ran, about nine 

 ' miles up to Newburgh.' 



' Thursday, March 19th. Sawley Hall. Holding scent on grass, 

 ' but none on plough. Found on low covert at .Sawley, 

 ' and ran to ground at low end of Butterton Gill. Another 

 ' fox went away from the same place, past the white farm- 

 ' house on the top of the hill, as if for Bishop Thornton, 

 ' but being chased by a sheep-dog, turned short to the 

 ' right, and was hunted slowly down to Sawley Moor. The 

 'line was picked out by inches down by Mr. Greenwood's 

 ' keeper's house, Warsill, through Swales' Wood up to 

 ' Brimham Rocks, when pace improved a little. Leaving 

 ' the main earth at Brimham Rocks on his right, ran 



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