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on the wold side : but Dalton Wood, handy Beverley, is so 

 tainted with garlic that, at times, hounds cannot run in it. I 

 have heard that Mr. George Foljambe pronounced the wolds 

 here to be one of the finest countries in the world for hounds. 

 There is one thing to be said for Holderness, it is a very hotbed 

 of sportsmen ; the farmers are stanch and true, fox-hunters 

 to a man, and, moreover, given to breeding something useful, 

 as a rule ; so that the hunting man and lover of blood-stock 

 are equally at home in the East Eiding. And out of strange 

 corners and unexpected nooks you may, round Beverley, drop 

 on a rich fund of hunting or racing lore, from the lips of some 

 aged patriarch. 



The first master of the Holderness was Mr. Draper, or, as he 

 was more generally termed. Squire Draper, of Beswick ; he died, 

 aged seventy-five, on the 18th of August, 1776, and lies buried 

 at Market Weighton. How long he had hunted the country, 

 history does not record, but it is probable that he had kept 

 either fox-hounds or harriers, or perhaps, as was then the 

 custom, both in one, for a great many years. Mr. Darley, of 

 xildby Park, who was one of those roving sportsmen so often 

 found at this period, came next ; and as he also had what is now 

 Lord Middleton's country at the same time, and shifted to the 

 Beswick kennels for the Holderness side, probably he was 

 orthodox in his tastes and stuck to fox, moving his quarters as 

 game became scarce. Then came Mr. Osbaldeston, of Hunmanby, 

 father of The Squire ; his huntsman was Isaac Grainger, and his 

 whips, Bill Marshall and Bill Carter — the huntsman a great 

 man in his day, and the second whip the father of Sir Tatton's 

 huntsman, Tom Carter. Eather a good lot all round, I should 

 say. The last decade of the eighteenth century was scarcely 

 half through ere the Squire of Hunmanby had given up to the 

 Duke of Devonshire, who built kennels at Londesborough Hall, 

 and he quickly resigned in favour of Lord Carlisle, who hunted 

 the joint countries for some time. Then came Lord Fever- 

 sham 'j but Mr. William. Bethell, of Bishop's Burton, whose elder 



