2o8 HISTOR Y OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



crossed the river. However, they managed to kill a fox in 

 the afternoon. On the following day they met at Knavesmire 

 Lod?je, when all York turned out to see them. Knavesmire 

 Wood held a fo.x, and after a smart scurry he was killed in 

 Mr. Lofthouse's cart shed at Bishopthorpe. Scent then 

 changed for the worse, and though there were more foxes 

 found, not much was done with any of them. Sport continued 

 to be fairly good till the middle of the month, when they 

 had a real old-fashioned day, which some of the horses did 

 not forget in a hurry : — 



'Monday, November i6th. .Stillinirton. Good scent; glass 

 ' rising. Found in .Stillington Whin, and after a good cry 

 ' in covert, fox was .supposed to have gone to ground. 

 ' Found in Stillington Carr, and after running hard in 

 ' covert, fox (headed twice) at length got away, and ran 

 ' hard up to Folly Wood. Here we viewed the hunted fox 

 ' very beat. A couple of hounds got ahead of the body. 

 ' Got the body of the pack up to them in two fields. 

 ' Hounds ran hard, leaving Huby Burn to the right, across 

 ' Huby and Tollerton lane ; turned slightly to the right, 

 ' and then to the left ; went through the west end of 

 ' Dodholme Wood and west end of New Parks straight up 

 ' to Blue Beck, below Blue Bridge Whin. Ran slowly 

 'down Shipton road, Gainsay (i88g) doing good work, 

 ' also Twinkle (1890). Hunted beautifully behind .Shipton 

 ' village and into Skelton Spring. Got on a fresh fox 

 ' there, but they got stopped. Time to then, one hour 

 ' and thirty minutes from Stillington Carr. Getting away 

 ' on our hunted fox, ran into Overton Wood. Here we 

 ' changed, and going away with a fresh fox, ran by the 

 ' river back into Overton, away to Skelton Spring and on 

 ' to Overton village ; down by the river, up to Beningbrough 

 ' and killed in the park. Hounds were running from 

 ' 12-17 to three o'clock, off and on. Bitches never worked 

 ' better.' 



The month went out with frost, and hounds were confined 

 to the kennel for two or three days, but they got to work 

 again in the beginning of December, and a fair average of 



