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Hounds hunted on until April 9th, when a brilliant season, 

 albeit a short one, was brought to a close at Goldsbrough. 

 They killed thirty brace of foxes and ran fourteen brace to 

 ground, — a good record under the circumstances. 



1895-96. — This, like the last, was a short season, though 

 from other causes. The mange, notwithstanding all the 

 efforts which had been made to stamp it out, was still very 

 much in evidence, and though in some parts of the country 

 there was a marked improvement, in others foxes were still 

 scarce. A start was made on Saturday, September 12th, at 

 Moreby, where they found a nice show of cubs, and got 

 hold of one after some good work. On the 19th they had 

 a long, hard morning at Thorpe Green, and a disappointing 

 one to boot, for though they found plenty of cubs, they had 

 to go home without blood. September, indeed, was a good 

 month taken on the whole, and it wound up with a nice 

 forty minutes' spin from one of the Hunsingore plantations, 

 by Northlands and back to another of the Hunsingore 

 plantations, where they killed. On October 14th they had a 

 nice gallop from Strensall, and by the time the season 

 opened the ground was in a very soft state, for during 

 October there had been some heavy rains. 



The season opened at Hawk Hills on Monday, Novem- 

 ber 4th, hwX. though there was a fair show of foxes there 

 was not much scent, and sport was only indifferent. Nor 

 was there much improvement on the following day when 

 hounds met at Nun Appleton, but an incident took place 

 which is worthy of record. During the run a pony bolted 

 with its rider and took off in the direction of the railway 

 gates at Colton. It would have been natural to suppose 

 that the gates would bring a pony to his senses, and that 

 he would stop. But such was by no means the case. The 

 pony charged the gate boldly, and got over all right with 

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