144 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



which was over the best part of the York and Ainsty 

 Thursday country. 



February was an open month, and good runs were the 

 rule, amongst which may be mentioned a fast fifty minutes 

 from Langwith on the "th ; a good fifty minutes from 

 Huddlestone Wood, ending with a kill at Grimston Lodge, 

 on the 1 7th ; and a capital hour and a half's hunting on the 

 19th, when, in a gale of wind, they found a fox in Swindon 

 Wood, and hunted him well by the Punch Bowl, Clap Wood, 

 Sicklinghall, Stockeld, Spofforth and Braham Wood, pulling 

 him down not far from Ribston Moor. Two days are too 

 good to be epitomised : — ■ 



February 9th. Wighill village. Found in Catterton Wood ; 

 'ran to ground in the garden at Bilbrough. Found in 

 ' Hutton Thorns ; away very quick past Rufforth, Hare- 

 ' wood's Whin, left Poppleton on the right to Red House, 

 ' through the wood, turning to the left up to Hessay, Hare- 

 ' wood's Whin, left Grange Wood on the left, Collier Hagg 

 ' on the left, Marston village and Whin on the left, Bilton 

 ' and Nova Scotia on the right, to Healaugh ; turned to 

 'the left back to Marston Whin. Most severe run; hounds 

 ' always going on fast. Two hours and fifteen minutes. 

 ' Two or three foxes in the whin ; we nearly caught one, 

 ' but he slipped out, and we lost him in Marston village. 

 ' Horses all tired.' 



'February 23rd. Tadcaster Bar. Drew Catterton and Duce 

 'Wood blank. Fox jumped up in a ploughed field outside 

 'Collier Hagg; away fast towards Rufforth, turned back 

 ' past Swann's Whin ; slow hunting past Healaugh 

 'village, leaving it on the right, past Duce Wood, through 

 'Shire Oaks, then getting nearer to him, and killed in 

 ' Mr. Brookshank's park. One hour and twenty - five 

 ' minutes. Found our second fox in a tree near Tom- 

 'linson's house; away at his brush, ran fast to Shire 

 ' Oaks and Catterton Wood, straight to Bilbrough Hill ; 

 ' checked in Col. Fairfax's garden, hit him off, ran into a 



