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' say much of Lord Harewood as a master, inasmuch as I 

 ' shall adhere to the determination with which I set out, and 

 ' only speak of those with whose hounds I have hunted. 

 ' One half-hour would have qiven me the opportunity here, 

 ' when on my Yorkshire tour. I got within a few miles of 

 ' Lord Harewood's fixture for the day, but was, with almost 

 ' the entire field, driven back by a snowstorm. From all 

 ' I have heard, I must endeavour to see his lordship's 

 ' establishment.' 



But Nimrod's visit was never paid, and singularly enough, 

 there seems to have been no one else to write a word about 

 Lord Harewood's hounds. I came across a brief account 

 of a day's sport, in BclTs Life, for January 27th, 1822, in 

 which it states that Lord Harewood's hounds had a good 

 day on the preceding Wednesday, running their first fox for 

 an hour and twenty minutes, and killing him ; and marking 

 their second fox to ground, after a severe run of two hours 

 and twenty-five minutes, but where they met, or found, or 

 killed, are impenetrable mysteries. 



This makes up the sum of what I have been able to 

 gather about the history of the country during a very 

 interesting period, and I have only given the past extract to 

 show how little satisfied people in the shape of hunting 

 intelligence not so very many years ago. 



The mention of a pleasant function must close this 

 chapter. The Bramham Hunt Ball, which took place at 

 Wetherby in January following Mr. George Lane Fox's 

 acceptance of the mastership of the hounds, was the place 

 selected to present Lord Harewood with an equestrian 

 portrait of himself, in recognition of the service his father 

 and he had rendered to the country during the twenty-six 

 years of their mastership. The presentation was made, on 

 behalf of the subscribers, by Mr. George Lane Fox, and it 



