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bolted and killed. The second fox was found in Askham 

 Bogs, and after a rather curious ringing run, was killed close 

 into York, after a run of fifty minutes. 



An incident which took place this season is worthy of 

 record. On March 19th and 20th hounds went by invitation 

 to hunt in the Holderness country, and though they were 

 not favoured with the best of scenting days, they showed 

 some good sport. On the 19th they met at Beeford. 

 They found in the famous Dringhoe Whin, and it may be 

 imagined that there was a 'wild charge' when they got away. 

 They could only hunt, however, and hunt they did with the 

 greatest perseverance, and finally they killed between Lisset 

 Drain and the Manor House. They did better with their 

 second fo.x, an outlying one which jumped up in Sandsfield, 

 and as they got a flying start with him, they ran hard for 

 a few minutes and finally killed him in the garden at 

 Brandesburton rectory, after a run of twenty-three minutes. 

 They found one or two more fo.\es, but scent had entirely 

 failed by that time, and they ciid little more good. It was 

 a long, hard day, hounds finished eight miles from the 

 special train, and it was nine o'clock when it arrived in York. 

 On the following day they met at Everingham, but did not 

 do very much, scent being worse than on the preceding day, 

 and foxes, though plentiful, were inclined to ring. At night 

 they found a fox in Leak Wood, and tor about a quarter of 

 an hour they ran nicely over a good country, pointing for 

 Beilby, but the fun was soon over, and after working out a 

 line slowly to Everingham Park, they were beaten, and went 

 home. It should be added that they had killed a fox in 

 the morning, but had no sport with him. 



1894-95. — No one that hunted is likely to forget this 

 season, especially if they cast in their lot with the York 

 and Ainsty. In the first place it was a season in which 

 that dread disease, the mange, made its presence known in 



