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a capital fastness by the riverside. The Tees flows 

 just underneath it, and it is a difficult place to get 

 away from ; but foxes seldom cross the river into 

 Durham. Crathorne is another meet, leading to 

 Picton Plantations, which often hold a fox. 



Saturday takes them into the south, and the best of 

 their country. Deighton and Welbury are two good 

 meets for the same district. From Deighton whin 

 they frequently run into the Bedale country, for 

 instance, to Hutton Bonville, &c., while from Welbury 

 — where the gorse has been down for some years, but 

 where Lord Harewood is now making a fine new whin 

 — they have had many good runs up to the hills. 



Northallerton, with a fox assured, is held to be one 

 of the best meets in Yorkshire. Hutton's Plantations 

 often produce a straight fox that will set his head for 

 the hills — for Mr. Hutton is a keen preserver, and 

 does his utmost to have the all-needful animal at 

 home. The Crosby Plantations give another good 

 chance ; and so does Bullamore Winn (well cared for 

 by Mr. Oliver, a farmer). Cotclifie Wood — a great 

 hillside wood — is a very strong place ; while quite on 

 the southern edge of the country is a '^ willow garth /^ 

 from which more than one gallop has emanated. The 

 only places on the hills themselves, to which hounds 

 ever resort, are Thimbleby and Arncliffe Wood on the 

 edge of the moors. 



