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as is usual after a prolonged storm, scent was wretched, and 

 sport moderate the three days that hounds were able to 

 hunt, before another spell of sharp frost came to ' take the 

 'other away.' It lasted for three days, and then came a 

 run to talk about, one of those great runs which happen 

 now and then. 



' February gth. Stocki^ld Park. After three days' sharp frost, 

 'it suddenly broke up. Found in Devonsliire Whin; hunted 

 'a ringing fox for an hour, and killed. Found in tlie 

 ' Cocked Hat Whin a brace of foxes ; hounds dividing, 

 'six couples pointing west, and the bodv turning short in 

 'covert, awa\' at his brush over the Haggs, leaving Parkin's 

 ' Wood to the left, past Herbert's Larches ; left Spacey 

 ' House Whin on the left, the Viaduct on the right, over 

 'the Crimple, up the hill heading for Beckwithshaw, and 

 ' straight for Haverah Park, through the Boar Holes, 

 ' straight on past the line of fir trees, headed for Kamps- 

 ' thwaite, and lost in Swarcliffe Park. One hour and forty 

 'minutes. Nine and a half miles straight; hounds ran 

 'fourteen miles; dog pack; a fine run.' 



A fine run indeed, and if it had not been that the frost 

 was not quite out of the ground, and that hounds had to 

 work for the line when they got on to the higher ground, 

 they must have killed their fox. It is also quite likely. Smith 

 thinks, that they changed foxes in Haverah Park. There 

 was not much sport after this fine run until towards the end 

 ot the month, and scent was generally moderate, especially 

 on the plough, which was thoroughly saturated now that the 

 frost had broken up, and carried a good deal. On the 1 8th 

 they met at Thorp Arch, and had a good da)-. They killed 

 a ringing fox at Wetherby to begin with, and then they had 

 a sm^rt burst from Walton Wood, killing in the Loft at the 

 end ol fifteen minutes. Another fox went away from the 

 Loft, and after a nice hunting run of a couple of hours, 

 thev killed hlni at Walton Lodo-e Farm. Mr. Fox has a 



