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and made a good cast at a critical part of the run. 

 Mr. Tom Fairfax, Captain Fairfax, Mr. E. Robinson, Lord 

 Wenlock, Col. Markham, Mr. Ledgard, Mr. Brady Nicholson, 

 Mr. Kendall, Mr. Wicklow (query, is this name meant for 

 Mr. Wickham.''), and Captain Lane Fox : all went well. It 

 should be added that it is computed by one historian of the 

 run that the distance covered was twenty-three miles. 



'March 16th. j\Iarston. Hutton Thorns, blank; ditto Nova 

 ' Scotia. Found at Duce Wood ; went away, and unluckily 

 'killed a vixen. Found at Catterton Spring; ran, leaving 

 ' Shire Oaks on the left, Duce Wood on the right, over 

 ' Marston .Sand Hill, back to Hutton Hall, Collier Hagg"; 

 ' left Angram on the left, Healaugh on the left, Duce Wood 

 'on the right. Shire Oaks on the right, to Healaugh Hall, 

 'into the park, out again towards Tadcaster, and though 

 ' we saw the fox, we could not catch him. Scent bad ; 

 ' pretty hunting ; lost him at Catterton Wood. Three 

 ' hours and ten minutes.' 



'March 23rd. Thorp Arch. Found in Hall Park Springs; 

 ' away towards Champagne Gorse, turned to the right to 

 'Walton Whin, and killed. Found in Champagne Gorse; 

 'lost. Found in Ingmanthorpe Woods; away to Horn 

 'Bank, down the railway by Thorp Arch to the river, back 

 'by the village to Champagne Gorse. Came up to a fox 

 ' at Geldart's plantation ; hunted him into Ingmanthorpe 

 'Wood, to the whin, to Sandbeck Wood; changed foxes, 

 ' ran quick to Horn Bank, back to a drain under the 

 'Walton road, bolted, and killed at Horn Bank. Hard day.' 



'April 7th. Alwoodley Crag. Found (after drawing Wheat 

 'Wood, Ireland Wood, Mosley Wood, &c., blank) at 

 ' Cookridge ; ran to Black Hills, back again, away to 

 'the rough stones on the Bramhope Tunnel, to ground. 

 ' Another fox was viewed at the same time, and we got on 

 ' him, and ran back by Cookridge, skirted Black Hills, 

 ' fast to Alwoodley Crag, on to Scotland Wood, left 

 ' Meanwood on the right, close to Chapeltown, pointed for 



