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236 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



point one hour, and the distance, ' as the crow flies,' ten 

 miles, whilst as hounds ran it would be about thirteen. 



At Newport station hounds made rather a sharp turn for 

 the Market Weighton canal, and then bearing left handed 

 ran down to the Foulness, which they crossed at Wolsea 

 farm, where, luckily, a ford was handy, and the field lost no 

 ground, as indeed they could scarcely afford to do now. 

 Harder than ever they ran past Throlam and Tollingham 

 and on to the Market Weighton canal and the Land of Nod. 

 At the Land of Nod they heard of their fox just in front of 

 them, the first time that he had been seen during the run ; 

 and cheering was it to hear the worthy farmer sing out, 

 ' You'll kill him before long ! ' for horses had had plenty, and 

 there were but few men with hounds now. Crossing the 

 high road close to the Land of Nod, they ran parallel to it 

 for some distance in the direction of Highgate. Then Mr. 

 Lycett Green viewed the fox as he jumped a fence, hounds 

 viewing him as he crawled through the next one. Still he 

 seemed to have plenty of 'go' in him. Holme Wood, with 

 its open earths, was close at hand, and the Master had an 

 anxious minute or two. But there was no cause for anxiety. 

 Good as the fox was, hounds were not to be denied, and two 

 fields further on they rolled him over in the open, within a 

 field of Holme Wood and safety. 



The time from the find was one hour and forty- five 

 minutes, the point from Melbourne to Newport ten miles, 

 and from Newport to Holme five miles. In the contemporary 

 accounts which were written of the run, the distance covered 

 by hounds was put at eighteen miles, but when the run was 

 carefully traced on the map it was found to be over nineteen 

 miles. 



That the Melbourne Hall run ranks with the Billesdon 

 Coplow run, the great Waterloo run with the Pytchley, and 

 the Poolfields Osiers run with the Warwickshire, is undoubted. 



