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HISTORY OF THE BR AM HAM MOOR HUNT. 



' ran him for some time, and to ground. A very hard and 

 'disappointing day, running from 11-30 till 4. 



A wet December meant good sport, and several excellent 

 runs were enjoyed till frost put a stop to sport just before 

 Christmas ; and two days deserve special mention : — 



'December 15th. Marston. A large field out after the 

 'Yeomanry Ball. Found in Hutton Thorns; hunted with 

 ' bad scent to the railway near Skip Bridge, round to 

 'AVilstrop, away to the Rash, came up to him, and raced 

 'him to ground in Wilstrop Wood. Found in Marston 

 'Whin; away over the road to Bilton, left the house on 

 ' the left, and Bickerton Spring on the left, turned short 

 ' over the York road, down Bilton fields nearly to Tockvvith, 

 'back towards the whin, and leaving it on the right chased 

 ' the fox into a short drain at Marston village, got him 

 ' out quickly, and killed. Thirty-five minutes ; very fast.' 



' December 1 8th. Kirkby Overblow. Found at Swindon Wood ; 

 'hunted to Dunkeswick hill, into Weeton bottoms, turned 

 ' to the right, left Walton Head on the left, past Herbert's 

 ' Larches, left Rudding Park just on the right ; came up 

 'to him in the rough ground near Spacey House Whin, 

 ' and hunted him back through Rudding Park down to 

 'the Crimple. Got off the line, got on him again in 

 ' Rudding Park, hunted to the tunnel and back, past 

 ' Bleach Ground Whin to Plompton Rocks, back to 

 ' Rudding, and lost. Hard day ; very wet.' 



The last run on the Marston day is a capital object-lesson 

 for masters of hounds on the vexed question of digging ; 

 a question upon which, if I may make bold to say it, has 

 more nonsense talked about it than any other in connection 

 with himting. Actuated, no doubt, by sportsmanlike feeling, 

 but without the slightest regard for the hounds, without 

 whom they would have no sport at all, there are some who 

 argue that it is wrong to dig under any circumstances, and 

 who talk of ' murder ' when a fox is dug out and given to 



