54 HISTORY OF TUP. BRAMIIAM MOOR HUNT. 



a lot of knocking about with an ' unenterprising ' fox to 

 begin with, and finally lost him in the park at Temple 

 Newsam. Then came a sharp scurry trom Preston Pits 

 to Kippax, ending with a kill, and then followed the run of 

 the day, which I give in Mr. Fox's words : — 



' Another fox away, got a long start of us ; hunted through 

 'Preston Pits, up the valley, leaving Garforth Bridge 

 'on the right, by Barrowby, Parlington, Hollins, nearly up 

 'to IMicklefield, through Ledsham Park, back to Kippax; 

 ' through the park, and to ground in Preston Pits. Two 

 ' hours, twenty-five minutes.' 



(3n the 9th, they had a very good forty-three minutes 

 from Bland's covert, which is, or was, close to the Micklefield 

 coal-pits, losing their fox between Huddlestone and Renshaw, 

 probably owing to the high wind which prevailed. On the 

 following Friday, they had a great run again from the 

 Milford country: — 



' Milford. Found two foxes in the wood ; went away with one, 

 ' a small fox, to Monk Fryston, Micklefield Wood, Ringhaj^ 

 'Led Mill, Castle Hill, and Saxton Carr. Left Church 

 ' Fenton to the left, skirted Rither Woods, lost him between 

 'Bishop Woods and Cawood. Three hours and ten minutes, 

 'fine hunting run.' 



March was a wild, stormy month, with severe frosts, and 

 consequently sport only moderate. Mr. Fox's comment on 

 the weather was — 'The ground very hard from constant dry 

 weather, the frost every night most severe, the thermometer 

 being as low as twenty-two in the night ; a bright sun all 

 day.' Hounds do not seem to have been much stopped, 

 but scent was bad, and at times they had to go home, or 

 could only make a late start. On the 27th, we learn that 

 there was 'very hard frost, snow, and thunder; went home,' 

 and on the following day they could not hunt till noon, and 



