PART VI 



LORD MIDDLETON'S.* 



From York to the sea (as outlined by Filey and 

 Flamborougli Head^ on tlie coast immediately below 

 Scarborough) is the extent of Lord Middleton^s 

 country. Forty- three miles from end to end, and 

 little or no use to be made of the railways, will convey 

 in other words the distance of ground that his pack 

 has to cover, even under the advantage of being 

 kenneled in a most central position. Indeed, were it 

 not that over a great part of the wolds the coverts lie 

 wide apart, and the hillsides are so open that little or 

 no shelter is afforded to outlying foxes, four days 

 hunting in the week would barely take in an area that 

 the late lord for a time found suflBcient for six. As it 

 is. Lord Middleton is able to commence hunting 

 before the end of August, and to continue into the 

 spring until he has, perhaps, even killed a May fox. 



Quite half the country (to the east) is high undulat- 

 ing wold — very much of the type we see, for instance, 

 with the Tedworth. The rest is about evenly divided 



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

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



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