I70 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



note to the effect that Mr. J. M. Richardson was out, and 

 was pleased with his day, which was certainly a good average. 



March was ushered in by frost and snow, and it was not 

 till the 7th that they could get to work On that day they 

 met at Stockeld Park, and had two hours and forty-five 

 minutes' 'excellent hunting' from Plompton, by Birkham 

 Wood, Follifoot, and Stockeld, to Kirk Deighton, where the 

 fox beat them fairly. The run of that day week, which 

 was a great one, will be foimd in Chapter I., where it is 

 given from Smith's diary. 



A capital season, in spite of the bother caused by the 

 weather, was brought to a close on Saturday, April iCth, 

 when they met at Buttersike Bar, and had a good day, 

 killing a brace of foxes, the last of them an old dog fox. 

 During the season they hunted one hundred days, killed fifty- 

 nine and a half brace of foxes, ran twenty and a half brace 

 to ground, and were stopped by the weather twenty -eight 

 days. They hunted on many a day when it was 'near the 

 way' from a riding standpoint, and therefore the excellence 

 of the season is all the more marked. It is worth notice 

 that most of their brilliant runs were on the Ainsty side 

 and in their Friday country. 



188 £-82. Seventeen couples of young hounds, and 

 twenty couples of old ones, were taken into Westwoods at 

 five o'clock on the morning of the 7th of September, to 

 begin the season, and after five hours' hard work they got 

 on to the line of a tired cub, rattled him along smartly for 

 a few minutes, and made a good finish by killing him This 

 was lucky, for the morning was anything but favourable, and 

 they could only drag on the line of a fox at first. 



Cub-hunting proceeded merrily, and good sport was the 

 rule, and moreover there was no sign of prolonged frost. 

 November was a little stormy and wild at time, and once 

 some snow fell, but not sufficient to prevent hunting, and 



