I02 HISTORY OF THE PRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



' Pit Wood, and killed near Burton Salmon. Thirty-five 

 'minutes. Second fox, Micklefield Wood. A smoking 

 ' twenty-five minutes, and killed. Our third fox we saw 

 'going into Daniel Hartley's, ran to Lotherton, Aberford, 

 ' back to Payne Hall Wood nearly to Micklefield, back to 

 ' Parlington by Scholes, left Merrick Hall on the right, 

 ' across Whin Moor to Eltofts and Scarcroft, whipped off in 

 ' the dark. Two hours and thirty minutes. Rare good day.' 



'February 17th. Sicklinghall. Found in Devonshire Whin, 

 ' crossed the river at Woodhall, ran to ground. Found at 

 ' Woolah Head, hunted him by Sicklinghall village, nearly 

 ' to the Cocked Hat Whin. Turned to the left, got on 

 'better terms, ran to Clap Wood, across the Punch Bowl, 

 ' over Wescoe Hill, across Weeton bottoms to the railway. 

 'Turned back over the hill to Rougemont Carr, by Hare- 

 ' wood Bridge, back to the left again, over Wescoe Hill 

 ' into Weeton bottoms, and lost. An hour and thirty-five 

 ' minutes to Rougemont Carr. No doubt we changed at 

 ' Harewood Brick-kiln. Two hours, five minutes, altogether. 

 ' Good run.' 



The season ended at Bramham Park on April 17th, 

 where they killed a brace of foxes, but had not much sport. 

 'The early part of the season was very good, the end of 

 ' February wild and stormy, March and April very dry and 

 'hot. No rain. Killed 66g brace of foxes. A fair good 

 ' season's sport. Stopped by frost twelve days. 



1868-69. The hot, dry summer of 1868, which was 

 almost without rain, caused the earliest harvest that had 

 been known for many years. The land was dried up, and 

 cracks both wide and deep appeared on the clay lands. 

 Harvest, excepting in backward districts, was pretty well 

 out of the way by grouse-shooting came in, and masters 

 of hounds might have started hunting in July, had it not 

 been for the excessive heat. They waited for rain, but no 

 rain came, and on August 29th Mr. Fox and the Bramham 



