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expected on such a morning, and they got hold of a cub 

 by 8-30. The cub-hunting went on merrily. Cubs were 

 plentiful, and hounds accounted for them well, and by 

 October iith they had killed fourteen and a half brace. On 

 that day Morgan had a nasty fall, his horse rolling on to 

 his ankle, and he was not able to go out for a week, 

 during which time hounds were kept in kennel. When they 

 got to work again they made up for lost time, for before 

 the first of November they had added seven and a half 

 brace to the score. It is not often that frost and snow 

 have to be chronicled in the cub-hunting season, but in 

 1869 there was much wild weather, and things looked 

 badly at times, though hounds were never really stopped. 

 The last day's cubbing was a good one. They met at 

 Fairburn, and had a lot of fun from Byrani and Newfield, 

 scent serving well. They killed two brace of foxes, and 

 had one or two fast bursts. 



The regular season opened at B ram ham Park on Monday, 

 November ist, and there was a capital show of foxes, hounds 

 killing a brace, but there does not seem to have been any- 

 thing very particular about the sport. On the Saturday, 

 Morgan again hurt his ankle, this time so badly that he was 

 some time before he could get into the saddle. So Mr. Fox 

 hunted his own hounds, and excellent sport he showed. His 

 first day was a good one. It was on Monday, November 8th ; 

 the fixture, Riffa. He began with a quick forty minutes from 

 Almscliff Whin, running by Thurtell's Whin and Pannal, 

 and to ground in a drain near Beckwithshaw. A fast, if 

 rather ringing, thirty-five minutes from Walton Head Whin, 

 ending with a kill, made up a very good day. The weather 

 still continued unsettled, and on the Wednesday they were 

 driven home by a snowstorm. The storm did not last, 

 however, and hounds were never kept in kennel ; and though 

 the weather was wild and unsettled, there was a fair averao-e 



