THE RULE OF Mr. GEORGE LANE FOX. 



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Wetherby Lodge, Linton Spring, Wetherby station, Ingman- 

 thorpe, Armitage's plantation, North and Kirk Deighton, — 

 putting a nice finish to it. Hounds hunted well, and it 

 was a good hunting run. 



On December 2nd they had a long, hard day ; just the 

 sort of day in fact that is usually the precursor of a long- 

 spell of frosty weather. They met at Harewood Bridge, and 

 found in Swindon Wood, running up to Walton Head, where 

 they had a long check. Hitting off the line again, they 

 hunted in the direction of the Harrorate road, where the 



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field drove them clean off the line, and no more good was 

 done. Another fo.x that was found on the railway bank went 

 to ground immediately ; and then they found again at the 

 Bleachino- Ground, and had a good hunting run with a 

 holding scent. They ran to the railway and back, and 

 along the beck side to Brown Hills, turning to the left 

 through Plompton Rocks, and marking their fox to ground 

 in Abraham's Whin. Here some hounds had gone on with 

 the line of another fox, and they went on after them, 

 catching them up, and hunting past Ribston Whin and 

 Deighton, and through Armitage's plantation to Ingman- 

 thorpe Old Wood ; thence past Swinnow they hunted into 

 Hatfield's plantation, where they got on to the line of a 

 fresh fox. Him they ran hard for {&\v fields and back to 

 the covert, where they were stopped in the dark. They ran 

 nicely till they got close to Armitage's plantation, where 

 they had a long check, and from thence to Hatfield's 

 plantation it was very slow hunting. 



Then came the frost, and hounds were only out a very 

 few times from December 6th to February 7th. On 

 December 31st they went to Wetherby Grange Wood, and 

 had a very hard day, and though there was not much scent 

 they managed to kill a brace of foxes, finishing their day 

 in Westwoods, where they ran first one fox and then 



