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and iron works) enjoy a notable immunity from most 

 kennel ailments. It has more than once happened that 

 a hound suffering from kennel lameness, and sent 

 thither, has entirely recovered. The immediate vicinity 

 of the sea, and still more the opportunity of exercising 

 throughout the year on the broad sands, may have no 

 little to do with this advantage. 



Monday and Thursday are the days of hunting — 

 arranged at discretion as regards place of meeting. 

 The earliest cubhunting commences on the upper 

 moorland; but as soon as the corn is cut, the hill- 

 woodlands are well worked, and foxes driven as much 

 as possible to the lower ground. The ordinary meets 

 for the flat opposite the Kennels are Kirkleatham 

 (more often than for the woods above), Marske, 

 Coatham, &c. Among those for the western flat are 

 Ormesby, Stokesley, and Seamer; with a prospect of 

 a run over nice lowland, possibly into the Hurworth 

 territory to Hilton Woods or the Leven banks (where 

 a fox will generally get to ground) . On the hills are 

 Kildale, for its woods and the moor ; while the farthest 

 fixtures towards the wilds of grouse shooting are 

 Castleton and Danby. To the east are Liverton and 

 Kilton for the deep woods and gills ; Loftus whence 

 they may draw the cliffs ; and Inderwell for Roxby 

 Woods and Grinkell. From Guisborough they have 

 Guisborough Banks ; and for the re-entering hollow 

 between Kirkleatham and Upleatham is Yearby 

 Bank. Skelton Warren, again, gives them some four 

 or five hundred acres of rough covert. 



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