UNDER THE EARLS OF HARE WOOD. 



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North Road, pointed for the river Nidd. Bearin^^" left- 

 handed, however, they crossed the Crimple Beck, and 

 running over RilDston Moor crossed the Nidd at Ribston 

 Bridge, running straight for Goldsborough Wood. Through 

 Goldsborough Wood they ran, and over Goldsborough Moor, 

 nearly to Flaxby village, but turning to the right, they 

 ran through Flaxby plantation. After passing through the 

 plantation, the fox was viewed bearing" back for Goldsborough 

 Moor, over which hounds ran him, and through Goldsborough 

 Wood again, pointing for Plompton. He was beginning to 

 ring now, and swung round by Goldsborough Hall, and 

 through the pleasure-grounds, pointing for Knaresborough ; 

 and finally they rolled him over in Hay Park, after a capital 

 run of three hours. 



The record of such a run as this makes one wish that 

 there were more like it to follow. 



Will Bamford, who succeeded Payne, showed some 

 excellent sport, and in another place it will be told of the 

 confidence he had in his hounds, and how well they repaid 

 him for that confidence. He had two excellent whippers-in 

 to assist him, in Stephen Shepherd and Will Scott, both 

 of them good horsemen, active and clever, but neither of 

 them, I believe, having the slightest ambition to become a 

 huntsman. 



Of Stephen Shepherd, who was father of the Stephen 

 Shepherd who hunted the Bedale during the mastership 

 of the present Earl of Feversham, a good story is told. 

 Bamford unfortunately broke his thigh, and Stephen had to 

 hunt hounds. He showed excellent sport, indeed such sport 

 as had never been known in the country for years, and he 

 said nothing about it. But at last it began to be a subject 

 of enquiry, and then the mystery was solved. Some of the 

 hounds were seen to be very lusty after a few weeks, and it 

 was then admitted by Stephen that he had only taken out 



