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check, and thought that the fox had gone to ground under 

 the river bank. Crossing the river, however, they hit off 

 the Hne again, and hunted up to Harewood Bridge, where 

 they came up to their fox dead beat, and rolled him over 

 after two hours' good hunting. 



The season was brought to a close on April iith, when 

 they met at Bramham Park. The day was hot and dry, and 

 there was a mob of people ; but they killed a brace of foxes 

 for all that, and had something like a pretty hunt after the 

 second. It was a bad scenting season, taken on the whole, 

 and there were no great runs ; but hounds hunted well and 

 accounted well for their foxes. They were out one hundred 

 and thirteen days, killed seventy and a half brace of foxes, 

 and ran thirty-two and a half brace to ground. Of the 

 season Mr. Fox says : — ' Hounds did good work ; hunted 

 ' and killed their foxes well.' 



1878-79. — The next season, of which the master's 

 summary is that it was a bad scenting season, commenced 

 on September 4th, when Smith took fifty-six couples of 

 hounds into Westwoods, sixteen and a half of them being 

 vounof ones. The weather was hot, and there was not much 

 scent, but they managed to get hold of a fox after a good 

 deal of work. There is nothing much in connection with 

 the cub-hunting to record till October 14th, when they met 

 at Swindon Wood. They found plenty of foxes, and killed 

 a cub in the open. Then they found a leash of cubs in 

 Thurtle's Whin, but could do nothing with them. An old 

 fox was afterwards found near Pannal, and they hunted him 

 up to Swindon Wood, where, in all likelihood, they changed. 

 Anyhow, they ran back to the railway, and a train coming 

 along whilst hounds were on the line, ran over Beatrice, 

 injuring her so much that she had to be destroyed, and at 

 the same time causing hounds to lose their fox. They 

 hunted again, but did nothing to speak of. 



