THE RDLE OF Mr. E. LVCETT GREEAK 2,5 



Naburn.' That open day was anxiously awaited, and when 

 rain began to fall on Saturday, December loth, hopes beat 

 high. But it will be remembered that durino- all that 

 tantalisiny; winter, no sooner had the weather changed and 

 a thaw seemed imminent, than it incontinently began to 

 freeze again, and- this was the case on the morning of 

 Monday, December 12th. However, Mr. Lycett Green took 

 it as it was, and notwithstanding the fact that it froze all 

 day, they had a hard day and plenty of sport, though they 

 did not kill a fox. Indeed, they changed several times, 

 and finally were stopped at dark between Thorganby and 

 Skipwith. The ride home on the slippery roads is an 

 incident to be remembered. 



Then came the frost in earnest, and hounds were unable 

 to hunt again until January iSth, when they went on to 

 Copmanthorpe Wood in an intormal way, and had a very 

 hard day, their fox saving his life by going to ground in 

 the Bramham Moor country after three hours' hard running. 

 Scent served well on the following day, when they met at 

 Naburn, but the country was still in an unrideable state, 

 and after a woodland hunt ending with a kill, they had to 

 go home. It was not till Monday 23rd that the ground 

 was at all fit to ride over, and even then it was full of 

 ' bone ' in places. They met at Ha.\by and had a capital 

 day's sport. Eighteen minutes at racing pace from Haxby 

 Whin, ending with a kill within h;ilf a mile of St. John's 

 Well plantation, made a good beginning. Then they found 

 in Suet Carr, and ran by Flaxton, West Lilling and Sheriff 

 Hutton, pointing for Thornton-le-Clay. After running a few 

 fields in this direction, they turned to the right and crossed 

 a fine country by Lilling Hall and Lilling Green, and 

 through Strensall Old Wood, two fields from which they 

 rolled their fox over, after a fast fifty minutes. They found 

 another fox, or rather other foxes, for foxes were running 



