210 The Hunting Countries of England. 



CAPT. HON. E. JOHNSTONE'S.^ 



Scarborough scarcely sets up to be a liunting 

 quarter; and, favourite a resort thougli it is, its 

 attractions are generally associated more with sea- 

 bathing and systematic idleness than with strong 

 exercise and the sport of kings. Its visitors may 

 dress and walk, or even dance, but they do little else ; 

 and even the literature with which they beguile their 

 hours of nothingness is more likely to be that of 

 '' Ouida^^ and the weekly paragrapher than of Surtees or 

 the recorders of sport and pastime. In fact, not only do 

 most people go to Scarborough for anything but 

 foxhunting; and at a time of year when hounds are, 

 like themselves, wiling the days away in yawning and 

 slumber ; but most of them belong to a class that has 

 little thought of foxhunting under any conditions. 

 At the same time a certain number of sound sports- 

 men have of late availed themselves of the improved 

 railway facilities, to gain the advantages of Scar- 

 borough during the winter, while not separating 

 themselves too widely from home or business ties in 

 other parts of the county. At the back of the town. 



Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheets 5 and 6, and 

 Hobson's Foxhunting Atlas. 



