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were somewhat lacking in cry. In their hatred of a noisy 

 houncl, b(Uh Treadwell and his master carried their principles 

 rather too far, and Treadwell has been heard to say that 

 he hated a hound that spoke twice where once would do. 

 A pack that does not ' say ' much, and a huntsman who is 

 not constantly hallooing and blowing his horn, soon teach 

 a field to be quick, and to dash for a start ; and perhaps it 

 was the seventeen years of Treadwell's method that so surely 

 confirmed that quickness for which the Bramham field became 

 proverbial. 



But to return to the season of 1848-49. It was on the 

 morning of the fourth of September that Mr. Fox and 

 Treadwell commenced their first campaign together against 

 the Bramham foxes, and began a connection which was only 

 terminated by the death of Treadwell — a connection which 

 it is scarcely necessary to say had a remarkable effect, not 

 only on hunting in Yorkshire, but on the hunting world at 

 large, for there is not an important kennel in England 

 where some of the old Bramham blood is not to be found. 



The first day of the cub-hunting season seems to have 

 been a satisfactory one, though the account of it in Mr. Fox's 

 diary is brief: — 



' Sept. 4th. Parlington. Ran in covert for three hours. Cub 

 'got to ground in the quarry in the park, bolted and 

 'killed him. Rode Gift.' 



The opening clay of the regular season was on October 

 30th, when the fixture was at Bramham kennels. It was 

 a rather inauspicious opening, for Jupiter Pluvius was in 

 the ascendant, and a pouring rain fell all the day. Mr. Fox's 

 account of the day is of the briefest, and the probability is 

 that under the circumstances there was not much to record. 

 We read that they 'found foxes in Blackfen,' that there was 

 ' no scent,' and that thev found at Pot-terton. 



