224 THE GREATEST RUN 



where I think it tops the record is the pace. 

 I believe the whole run to have occupied 

 I hour and 45 minutes — i hour and 20 

 minutes to Baysdale, and 25 on to the 

 landslip. I know that it will not be credited 

 by most hunting-men, but it must be re- 

 membered that it was mostly over open 

 moorland, with few obstacles to check 

 hounds, and, except the solitary ploughman 

 in Baysdale, no sign of humanity all the 

 way. Three hounds died of exhaustion, 

 and the other lost ones were only got back 

 by degrees during the week following. 



In connection with this run I think the 

 following performance of Bob Brunton's 

 worth recording. He had hunted all day, 

 being at the meet at Ayton some miles from 

 his home, and I found him at Ingleby at 



