io6 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT 



In March they went into the York and Ainsty country 

 by invitation, and had a fairly good day's sport : — 



' March 9th. Buckle's Inn. Found in Askham Bog, ran forty 

 ' minutes in covert, at last went away as if for Grange Wood, 

 ' and caught him. Found at Colton Hagg, ran to Catterton, 

 'lost. Found in Steeton Whin, ran a very smart burst, 

 'and killed near Oxton.' 



The last day of the season was April 9th, the fixture 

 being- Bramham Park. A fair day's sport was enjoyed, 

 though they failed to kill. They found their first fox in 

 Lindrick Hills, and ran hard in Westwoods, but when they 

 got on to the fallows, scent failed. A second fo.x jumped 

 up in a field near Spring Wood, and with him they had a 

 nice fifty minutes by Hetchell, Dog Kennel Whin, Blackfen, 

 Becca, Potterton, and nearly to Saw Woods. The season 

 had been a very open one, but scent as a rule had been 

 indifferent. Some good hunting runs had taken place, and 

 one or two very fast ones, so that, on the whole, sport had 

 been fair. The season's record was 69^ brace of foxes. 



Fred Turpin came to an untimely end just as he was 

 beginning to get known in the country. How it happened 

 is not known, but he had a fall from his horse as he was 

 returning home from York one evening, and the fall was a 

 fatal one.* He was succeeded by Goddard Morgan, a 

 brother of Ben and Jack, and one of that family of huntsmen 

 whose names have been famous for generations. 



1869-70. Morgan's first day was not a promising one, 

 for the weather was hot and the ground like adamant, when, 

 on the ninth of September, he took twenty-eight couples 

 of bitches, ten couples of which were young ones, to the 

 Brick-kiln end of Westwoods, at five a.m. He had good 

 reason to be pleased with his start, however, for he found a 

 good litter of cubs, scent was better than could have been 

 * It is gener.illy supposed that he took a fit of some kind. 



