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'and Askham road and on up to the stables at Askham 

 ' Richard Hall ; turned to the right, and ran as if for 

 • Grange Wood, but turned again to the left, and crossing 

 ' Rufforth and Askham lane, and leaving Askham Whin 

 ' on our left and Angram village on the right, crossed the 

 ' Askham road ; turned to the right, leaving Hell Holes on 

 'the left, and ran up to Healaugh village; leaving that 

 ' on our right, went to ground in a tree on the Catterton 

 ' side of Healaugh. Good hunt of one hour.' 



Saturday, December 8th. Sessay station. Bitches. Bad scent 

 'in morning, good in afternoon. Dalton Whin blank. 

 ' Found in Lord Downe's new whin covert below Thor- 

 ' manby, hunted over to Sessay Wood, and came to a 

 ' check ; leaving that covert on the right, ran over the York 

 ' and Gilling railway and up to Raskelf Old Whin ; turned 

 ' to the right, and pointed as if for Raskelf village, but 

 ' turned again to the right, and hunted back into Sessay 

 ' Wood. Got our hunted fox very beat in the covert, 

 ' and after some good work got away on the Thormanby 

 ' side, and ran to ground in the big sand drain between 

 ' Thormanby and Sessay Wood. About one hour; bitches 

 ' worked well. Clark's Wood blank, also Pilmoor. Found 

 ' at Brafferton Spring and ran fast over the York and 

 ' Thirsk railway and up to the York and Gilling branch ; 

 ' came to a check ; got on the line of the fox (a horse in 

 ' a plough dropped down dead here) and hunted slowly up 

 ' to Raskelf Moor plantation ; turned to the right as if for 

 ' Raskelf village, and then to the left ; crossed over Raskelf 

 ' and Thormanby road, pointed for Peep o'Day Whin, but 

 ' turning to the right, leaving the whin on the right hand, 

 ' ran up the hill, leaving Husthwaite on the left and Acaster 

 'Hill on the right, to Beacon Banks ; two lines here, but 

 ' hounds stuck to their hunted fox, and pointed at first as 

 ' if for Coxwold, but turning to the right ran into the back 

 ' of the kitchen garden at Newburgh Priory. As it was 

 ' getting dark we had to stop hounds, though we thought 

 ' the fox was in a stick-heap by the wall. Seven-and-a- 

 ' half-mile point, about nine as hounds ran ; one and a 

 'quarter hours. The hunted fox was seen to go down to 

 ' near Coxwold station and up the railway, dead beat.' 



