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HISTORY OF THE YORK AhW A IN STY HUNT. 



The pace in the two runs was about identical, something 

 over twelve miles an hour, and the country crossed in each 

 run was all that could be wished for. In the York and 

 Ainsty run but one hound was missing, a fact which must 

 have given great satisfaction to the Master and his men. In 

 making the foregoing comparison between the Warwickshire 

 and York and Ainsty runs I have had no wish to detract from 

 the former, which was undoubtedly a fine run, and one, more- 

 over, which is worthy of a foremost place in hunting history, 

 but judged from the standard of 'one run one fox,' I think it 

 must be admitted that the Melbourne Hall run takes pride of 

 place. Never but once in my life have I seen hounds run 

 as they ran on that day, and that was when the Cleveland 

 met at Marton on F"riday, February 13th, 1869. They ran 

 for three hours and a quarter, finally killing their fox. The 

 run was something like the Warwickshire run, inasmuch as 

 hounds changed twice, if not oftener, and it was also some- 

 thing of a ring. 



