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with the Bramham Moor on March 2nd, 1889, and he died 

 ten days after of inflammation of the lungs. His ribs were 

 crushed by the fall, and no doubt his chance of recovery was 

 affected by his being taken home in a conveyance. 



Mr. John Henry Graves, of Sutton-on-the-Forest, was 

 another keen sportsman. In his younger days he was a very 

 hard man, and he went well till his health began to fail. 

 He was rather a bruising rider, and was always well mounted. 

 He took a great and active interest in the sport, and was a 

 strict fox preserver, whilst he possessed a great influence 

 over others and kept many a waverer in the right path. 



Mr. David Kirk was another typical York and Ainsty 

 farmer. He was a bold horseman, and liked a raw unmade 

 horse. He never gave great prices for his horses, but he 

 soon made them clever. He was a light weight and a hard 

 man. He was killed near Wensley, as has been already 

 related, when within a few weeks of his seventy-seventh 

 birthday. 



The history of the York and Ainsty Hunt shows how, 

 notwithstanding that difficulties have arisen now and again, 

 as for instance with the serious attack of mange, the country 

 has always presented a united face to those difficulties, and 

 that masters and hunt servants, landowners and farmers have 

 had but one end in view, and that end the showing of good 

 sport. So long as this spirit remains in the country — and it 

 is a subject for congratulation that, in these days of change, 

 it does remain in the country — so long will the high standard 

 of sport for which the York and Ainsty has ever been 

 famous be maintained. 



