THE RULE OF Mr. GEORGE LANE FOX. 



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qot together a pack of harriers some time in 1866, and these 

 he hunted from Newton Kyme. Tired of the long enforced 

 idleness, one afternoon in January Captain Fairfax got his 

 hounds out, and proceeded to try for a hare in the pleasure- 

 grounds at Newton Kyme. He thought that he could easily 

 keep within touch of his harriers in the snow, for jumping 

 was of course quite out of the question. But he was in for 

 something bigger than he anticipated. Instead of a hare it 

 was a fox they found in the pleasure-grounds, and at a rare 

 pace the little hounds rattled him along straight to Bramham 

 Park. There Captain Fairfax happened to get to them, and 

 managed to get them stopped. Mr. Fox heard them running, 

 and went out to see what it was ; and he afterwards wrote 

 an account of what had occurred to the Hon. ' Bob' Grimston. 

 This was an opportunity not to be missed ; and that gentle- 

 man wrote to Nevvcome Mason, — ' George Lane Fox has 

 ' been out ivith the harriers on foot. What a come down ! ' 

 Goodall left at the end of this season, going to the 

 V.W. H., whilst Turpin, who had been in that country, came 

 northward. In the sporting magazines and newspapers of 

 the day we read that ' Goodall continues to delight his field 

 'by his energy and perseverance'; but he had rather too 

 much energy for Mr. Fox, who did not care to see his 

 hounds galloped for miles without a line. He was thoroughly 

 miserable at times when he saw the methods of Goodall, 

 who did not settle down with time. 



1867-68. Fred Turpin made a rare start amongst the 

 cubs, Blackfen being the place where the start was made. 

 They had a rare morning's work, killing a leash. It was an 

 exceptionally good cub-hunting season, hounds getting hold 

 of twenty-one brace of foxes. The first open day was on 

 Monday, November 4th, at Riffa ; and a very good day it 

 was, Turpin killing a leash of foxes, as he had done on his 

 first morning's cub-hunting : — 



