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' over the small coverts near Fall Gates, through them up 

 ' to Linton Spring, through the top end of the spring (the 

 ' fox close in front of them), on up to Alne Mill dam, over 

 ' the park at Alne, leaving Youlton Whin on the left, 

 'worked up to llavvking's Farm near Cass Moor. After 

 ' a check there ran round to the right, leaving Flawith on 

 ' the left. Came to a check, but getting on better terms 

 ' with our fox at Aldwark Moor, ran into Aldwark Wood. 

 ' Got away from there, ran through the fox covert up to 

 ' Youlton, round by Youlton Whin, leaving that on the 

 ' right, past the keeper's house at Aldwark, and killed our 

 ' fox dead beat in Aldwark and Cass Moor lane, opposite 

 ' Reilly plantation. Hounds worked wonderfully well. 

 ' They were running about three hours. The first twenty- 

 ' five minutes were fast, without a check. A really good 

 ' hunt. A brace of foxes in front of us several times.' 



There was some CTood sport in April, and on the 4th 

 and 9th they had very good runs for the time of year. On 

 the former day they haci a yood hunt of an hour from Nun 

 Appleton, finally losing- their fox at Bilbrough, and on the 

 latter they had a good ringing nin from the Holly Carrs, 

 killing their fox at the Temple Walk. The season finished 

 on April i6th, at Wheldrake. The season, notwithstanding 

 its broken character, was a good one, and hounds accounted 

 well for their foxes, killing forty-six-and-a-half brace and run- 

 ning twenty-eight brace to ground. 



1892-93. — For the history of the next two seasons I 

 have to depend on my own notes, and the record will 

 necessarily be a brief one. The harvest of 1892 was late, and 

 it was not until September r5th that a start was made at 

 Steeton, where, after a hard morning's work, they killed a cub. 

 On the 27th they had a good day at Nun Appleton, running 

 one fox and another for an hour and three-quarters before 

 they got hold of one. Late as it was there were several 

 fields of beans to cut, and this interfered considerably with 



