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CHAPTER XYL 



THE HOLDERNESS, 



**Will, this one we've killed in a tree; 

 The next we'll kill in the sea : 

 That is how it will be." 



Another North Country pack, of which I must give a slight 

 sketch, is the Holderness, and I select it because, although parts 

 of it will give one a very good idea of other Yorkshire countries, 

 such, for instance, as Lord Middleton's, both being very much 

 alike on the wolds, no other country that I know will give an idea 

 of Holderness proper, which must be seen to be appreciated. 

 My object is to give as good an idea as is within my power 

 of hunting in different parts of England, and its characteristics, 

 in the short space at my command in this volume will per- 

 mit ; hence I must select countries which represent a cer- 

 tain district. The York and Ainsty may well stand for the 

 Bramham Moor, part of Lord Middleton's, and other Yorkshire 

 packs. The Holderness is totally different, first in situation, as 

 it is placed in the extreme east of the East Eiding of Yorkshire, 

 and lies between the sea and the river Humber, hence, no 

 doubt, is the cause of its carrying such a wonderful scent as it 

 usually does. It is not, at the present time, what may be 

 termed a fashionable country, as it is difficult to get over, in 

 many places, and nearly as difficult to get at ; moreover, there 

 is little or no grass in it — the two last henious faults in the 

 eyes of most modern hunting men. A country is little to them 



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