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On tlie far west tlie moors begin somewhere about 

 Cayton ; and run into the hilly distance far beyond 

 Pateley Bridge, which is virtually the Land^s End of 

 the Hunt. Last season they ran several times from 

 the lower ground right on to the moors with strong 

 foxes worthy of the hills. From Scriven Park (the 

 residence of the Master) there is always a chance of a 

 good fox taking them up to the hills, though more 

 often the Copgrove direction is chosen. This was the 

 line on that fatal day in 1868, when four as fine riders 

 and good sportsmen as ever took the field (Sir Chas. 

 Slingsby, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Robinson, and Orvis) were 

 laid side by side in their dripping scarlet, cold and 

 stark, on a table in Newby Hall, and four dead horses 

 were stretched on the bank of the Yore. They had come 

 by Copgrove and the winn of Bishop Monkton — a line 

 already run twice that season — before they struck the 

 river opposite Mr. Clare Vyner^s, and called his 

 private ferry-boat into use to follow the pack. 



The farmers of the Hunt are just as staunch and 

 sport-loving as ever, though unable, under pressure of 

 the times, to take the field as freely and as well- 

 mounted as in years gone by. There are still a good 

 many forthcoming from the Ainsty and the Easing- 

 wold district ; and, as times mend, no doubt they will 

 muster as strongly, and ride as good cattle, as in the 

 best of bygone days. 



Inferior horses are out of place in Yorkshire. You 

 may get along well enough on a moderate one ; but he 

 is not in keeping with the tradition and teaching of 

 the county. What has been already written under 

 the head Blramham Moor will answer verbatim for the 



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