126 HISTORY OF THE BR AM HAM MOOR BUMT. 



'April i6th. Bilton Banks. Found and ran up the banks, 

 ' away towards Birk Crag, turned by Saltergate Hill, back 

 ' to the river, opposite Ripley Castle, and lost. Fifty 

 ' minutes : hunting well. Tried the banks again. Found 

 'in Birkham Wood, away to the road, to ground in a drain. 

 'Found in Braham Wood, ran smart away to the river, 

 ' crossed below Goldsbrough Mill, through Goldsbrough 

 ' Wood towards Ribston, back up the river side, crossed, 

 ' and back to Braham Wood ; hunted slowly over the dry 

 'fallows towards Spofforth, turned to the right along the 

 ' Crimple side, got up to our fox in the rocks, and pulled 

 ' him down before he could reach Birkham Wood. One 

 'hour and forty-five minutes.' 



They finished the season at Bramham Park on the 25th, 

 when, in contrast to the hot weather which had usually 

 prevailed on their closing day, there were frequent snow 

 showers. They had a fair day's sport, running one fox to 

 ground, and killing a brace. ' Quite a first-rate season's 

 'sport,' writes Mr. Fox; 'hounds killing their foxes well.' 

 Very wet until the end of March. Killed fifty-three and 

 a half brace ; ran twenty-three and a half brace to ground. 



1873-74. The next season commenced on Saturday, 

 August 30th, at Harewood, when they took out forty and a 

 half couples, of which ten and a half couples were young- 

 ones They had a fair morning's work, and managed to 

 get hold of a brace. The cub-hunting season was an 

 uneventful one. Hounds found plenty of foxes, and were 

 well blooded ; and when the season opened on Monday, 

 November 3rd, it was a well -trained and good-looking lot 

 that Kingsbury took into the field. Mr. Fox was away from 

 home when the season opened, and Captain Fox was left 

 in command. Nothing of much importance took place 

 during the early days of the hunting season. The ground 

 was dry, and as a rule scent was only moderate. But now 

 and again there was a good run, such as that which took 



