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CHAPTER III. 



Under the Earls of Harewood. 



Ir is much to be regretted that the materials for a history 

 of the Bramham Moor Hunt during the period the hounds 

 were under the mastership of the Earls of Harewood are 

 of so meagre a description. Searching through the old 

 Sporting magazines and newspapers has not resulted in the 

 bringing of very many facts to light, and some of these 

 are of the vaguest. Here and there I have been able to 

 pick up a little information, but some of it has no date, and 

 in other instances the lack of particulars is most tantalising. 

 Then, for some occult reason, one who could have thrown a 

 little light on the subject has refused to do so, so that I am 

 unable to devote as much space as I should wish to that 

 very interesting part of the history of the pack when it was 

 kennelled at Harewood. 



It is a curious circumstance that Nimrod twice set out 

 to see Lord Harewood's hounds ; once when Payne was 

 huntsman, and once when Treadwell carried the horn ; but 

 he never got to see them either time. Of the first time he 

 writes : ' I was disappointed in not seeing Lord Harewood's 

 'hounds. It is an old-established pack, and of course there 



