88 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



'prevented my knowing that in Yorkshire snow had gone, 

 'whilst the jMidland counties were covered. They found 

 'in Catterton, and could do nothing. Found late, after 

 ' drawing miles of country, at Cowthorpe ; went away for 

 ' Tockwith, crossed the Nidd, went by Scathemoor and 

 ' Hopperton, crossed the Boroughbridge road, through 

 ' Ribston plantations nearly to the house at Ribston, 

 'turned him in the park, and killed him at the corner of 

 'the covert. An hour and ten minutes; a first-rate run.' 



It was this year that the Grand National Hunt Meeting 

 was held at Wetherl^y, and on March 31st, which was the 

 day after the concluding day of the meeting, hounds met 

 at Walton, and no doubt there would be a many strangers 

 out on that day. There was nothing very brilliant in the 

 way of a gallop, but visitors had a chance of seeing how 

 the Bramham hounds could hunt under difficulties. 



'March 31st. Walton. Day after the Grand National Hunt 

 ' Steeplechases at Wetherby. Tried all Ingmanthorpe, 

 ' Cowthorpe, and Wighill, — blank. Found at Catterton ; 

 'went away over the York road towards Appleton, back 

 'by Colton, Bilbrough, towards Askham, back to Catterton. 

 ' Very dry ; cold hunting. Two hours and thirty minutes.' 



The season terminated on April iSth. 



'April 1 8th. Micklefield ; 8 a.m. Very hot ; thunder showers. 

 ' Found in Huddlestone Wood ; very bad scent ; could not 

 ' kill. A bad scenting season. All November and December 

 'very dry. A good deal of frost and snow in the middle 

 ' of the winter, then dry north-east winds. By constant 

 'perseverance, Treadwell managed to kill fifty-five brace 

 ' of foxes.' 



This was Treadwell's last season, and perhaps when the 

 extraordinary difficulties which a succession of such awkward 

 weather brings about are taken into consideration, it was his 

 most successful one. He died suddenly on a .Sunday evening 



