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frequent and favourite meet) continues with numerous 

 still larger coverts. On the south and overlooking the 

 Holderness Vale is Boynton Hall (Sir Charles Strick- 

 land's) ^ a place of great importance in the Hunt, and 

 to reach which hounds are kenneled overnight at 

 Eudston. Here, too, the many coverts are larch 

 plantations. Borough Nook and Kilham are other 

 meets on this side, with a view usually to Langtoft 

 Whin, with Cottam Warren and ultimately the big 

 woods of Sledmere to follow. 



It is found that small well-bred horses do their work 

 on the wolds with greater ease and success than the 

 larger type that may find favour on the low ground. 

 (In Holderness, it is true, most of the farmers ride 

 little else but small thoroughbreds in any part of their 

 country ; but though breeding is held as essential 

 everywhere in Yorkshire, strength and a certain 

 standard of size are as a rule considered equally 

 desirable, where the ditches are wide and the ground 

 deep.) Lord Middleton breeds nearly all the horses 

 required in his establishment; and the men are mounted 

 entirely upon animals whose pedigrees would do no 

 discredit to Newmarket. The smaller stock are 

 brought into use for the wolds ; the larger are told off 

 for the low country — the result being that for all 

 purposes the men are mounted as well as, probably 

 better than, with any hunt in the three kingdoms. 

 The lighter horses do their work well on the hills ; 

 while the stronger easily carry their allotted burdens 

 over the stiffest of the country. Some of them would 

 be considered up to fully thirteen stone anywhere ; 

 and this, be it remembered^ is far more than the 



