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short columns, which was published in the early part of 

 the century. It is curious to note that three parts of a 

 column on the front page of the issue of Monday, April 

 6th, 1807, is devoted to fox-hunting; — Lord Darlington's, 

 Sir Mark Masterman Sykes', the Bramham, Lord Fitz- 

 william's. Lord Vernon's, and the Belvoir, all coming in 

 for brief notice. This is what is said about the Bramham 

 Moor:— 



' Mr. Fox Lane, fake him for all in all, may bid defiance to 

 ' all his neighbours. Hounds as high mettled as the riders 

 'who follow them, fly over the Wolds with a speed not to 

 ' be exceeded, while in their cold Jiuiifing may be found 

 ' the most perfect system which the sagacity of the animal 

 ' can furnish. Every keen sportsman will find, in point of 

 ' riding, such playmates in this Hunt as will not leave 

 'them idle.' 



High praise, this, and well merited, as the runs above 

 given amply prove ; and the remarks that applied to the 

 Bramham Moor in 1807 apply to them equally at the end 

 of ninety years. 



Mr. James Lane Fox hunted the country for many 

 years, and when his health began to fail he retired, giving 

 the hounds up to the second Earl of Harewood, than whom 

 no keener sportsman ever followed the Bramham Moor, or 

 for the matter of that, any other pack. A friend of mine 

 professes his admiration of ' a good lang clay,' and the Earl 

 of Harewood would have been a master after his own heart, 

 for, like Lord Darlington, he would hunt till dark, and was 

 no believer in going home to luncheon. It was a stipulation 

 with Mr. James Lane Fox that the hounds should not leave 

 Bramham during his lifetime. His son, a very heavy man. 

 hunted as a matter of course, but he did not care much 

 for hounds, preferring Newmarket and racing to hound- 

 breeding. Hence on his father's death the hounds went to 



