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The frost which had been threatening for some time 

 came in earnest in January, and there was a week's stoppage. 

 Then came a fair average of sport, hounds accounting well 

 for their foxes. On the 15th and i6th they had fair sport, 

 but the country was in a bad state for riding, and then there 

 was a little more trouble with frost. Still hounds did fairly 

 well, and in the early days of February they did very well. 



On the 5th they met at Skelton, and after drawing 

 Skelton Spring blank, they found an outlying fox between 

 Skelton and Shipton. Leaving Josey Wood to the right, 

 they crossed the York road and ran on to Haxby station, 

 leaving the whin on the left. From Haxby station they ran 

 down to the Foss and thence to Huntington, where they 

 killed in a garden after a very fast run of an hour. Better 

 wa.s to come. They found again in Suet Carr and ran at 

 top pace, pointing first for Strensall. They soon turned to 

 the right, and crossed the York and Sutton road, and then 

 turned left-handed as if for New Parks. They twisted about 

 a little, crossino- and recrossino; the road, and then leaving 

 Launde House to the left, they ran by Plainville to Moorlands, 

 and thence nearly to Skelton village, finally running into their 

 fox not far from Fairfield. It was a brilliant gallop of forty 

 minutes. Grass or plough, it was all the same, hounds raced 

 as if tied to their fox, and the field was very select when the 

 end came. It was the best scent they had had since the 

 Melbourne day, but they had not such a good fox. 



There was a lot of wild weather and some heavy gales 

 in February, and on the 1 7th there came a sudden spell of 

 frost. The frost, however, went away as suddenly as it had 

 come, and on the 24th they hunted at Moreby, and had a 

 very sharp scurry of eighteen minutes from Heron Wood, 

 killing in Moreby Wood. They had a fair day's sport on 

 March 13th, beginning with fifty-three minutes from Colton 

 Hagg to Dringhouses, where they marked their fox to ground, 

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