42 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



' is no want of the means to do the thing well ; and money 

 ' is almost a sine qua non in fox-hunting. A strange thing 

 ' happened last season with these hounds. The huntsman 

 ' imprudently capped them into a very rapid mill stream, 

 ' and three or four couples were drowned. A young gentle- 

 ' man named Markham gallantly plunged in to their assistance, 

 ' and very narrowly escaped their fate. He succeeded in 

 'saving one of them.' 



The Mr. Markham would be the man who afterwards 

 distinguished himself so much in India, and who died just as 

 he reached the Crimea. This occurrence seems to have 

 taken place during the earlier years of the mastership of the 

 second Lord Harewood, and I have found some record of 

 a run which belongs to the same period. It is a very 

 interesting one, as it shows that long good runs into the 

 York and Ainsty country were not peculiar to a later date. 



On Monday, November 25th, 1822, they met at Tadcaster 

 Bar, and after drawing a covert or two blank, they went to 

 Shire Oaks, where they found a ' traveller.' They drove 

 him out at the Healaugh side, and past the Hall, and 

 then the)- ran along the riverside nearly to Tadcaster, 

 and back to Shire Oaks. They did not, however, enter the 

 covert, but leaving it on the left pointed for Catterton, and 

 turned left-handed to Duce Wood. Thence they ran to 

 Nova Scotia, which they left on the left ; and next they 

 made Bilton village, passing between it and the wood, with 

 the former on the right hand. They crossed and re-crossed 

 the York road, the time up to this point being a trifle over 

 forty minutes, and 'with never a check from the find.' The 

 crowd of h(jrses on the road brought hounds to their noses, 

 but they hunted through them, and leaving Bickerton village 

 on the right, pointing for Wetherby, and keeping to the left 

 f the Wetherby road for some distance. Then crossing 

 the road they ran down to Sugden Wood, and crossing the 



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